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SHAAP response to House of Lords Select Committee Consultation on Licensing Act 2003

SHAAP has submitted a response to the House of Lords Select Committee Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 Consultation. In our response we support...

SHAAP response to Appendix 3 of WHO Global NCD Action Plan consultation

SHAAP has submitted a response to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) consultation on (draft) Appendix 3 of their Global NCD Action Plan. In our response,...

SHAAP response to NHS Scotland document proforma consultation

SHAAP has submitted a response to NHS Scotland’s proforma consultation on the following documents: Delivering Quality Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco Healthcare Services to People in...

New research supporting MUP

As the MUP court case continues in Scotland this week (7th and 8th July), new research by Dr Arianna Andreangeli from University of Edinburgh Law...

SHAAP response to SG Police Powers to Search Children and Young People for Alcohol consultation

SHAAP has submitted a response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on Police Powers to Search Children and Young People for Alcohol, On this occasion, we...

Call for proposals to present at 2016/17 SHAAP/SARN ‘Alcohol Occasional’ Seminars

Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) and the Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN) are pleased to announce our programme for the lunchtime ‘Alcohol Occasional’...

Public Health must prevail over Big Business – Open letter in support of MUP

Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP), Alcohol Focus Scotland (AFS), the British Medical Association (BMA), and Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs (SFAD),...

Scholin Alcohol Occasional online

Lisa Scholin, Research Assistant at the Institute for Social Marketing, University of Stirling and PhD student at Liverpool John Moores University spoke at SHAAP/SARN’s 2015/16...

SHAAP response to Northern Ireland drink driving consultation

SHAAP has submitted a response to Northern Ireland’s Department for the Environment consultation on regulations to introduce measures to tackle drink driving. We also submitted...

Research and Policy Briefing No.10 May 2016 now out

Research and Policy Briefing No.10 now out. Highlights include: MESAS Final Annual Report New CMO drinking guidelines MUP update Evaluating the Public Health Responsibility Deal...

Skar Alcohol Occasional online

Mariann Skar, Secretary General of Eurocare (The European Alcohol Policy Alliance), spoke at SHAAP’s 2015/16 Alcohol Occasional seminar series about alcohol labelling in Europe. In...

Next Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN) Meeting – 12th May

The next Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN) meeting will be held on Thursday 12th May 2016 at University of Dundee in the Dalhousie building. The...