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Dr Richard Cooke Alcohol Occasional online

Dr Richard Cooke, Department of Psychology at Aston University, Birmingham, spoke at SHAAP’s 2015/16 Alcohol Occasional Seminar series about his work on the CALIBRATE project...

SHAAP response to CMO new drinking guidelines consultation

SHAAP has submitted a response to the UK Department of Health’s Consultation on the Chief Medical Officers’ (CMO) new drinking guidelines. We also submitted an...

Call for posters to present at PhD symposium

  Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP), in collaboration with the Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN), are holding a one-day symposium for postgraduate students...

Letter from First Minister thanking SHAAP for continued support

Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) received a letter from First Minister Nicola Sturgeon thanking us for our continued support in tackling alcohol misuse...

Peter Rice on alcohol excise duties in The Herald

Peter Rice, SHAAP’s Chair responds here to some Scottish politicians’ support for reducing excise duty on whisky (which, ‘de facto’, would include cheap vodkas.)

We call for reduction in children’s alcohol advertising exposure

BMA Scotland, SHAAP, Alcohol Focus Scotland and Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol & Drugs have joined together to call on Scotland’s politicians to pledge to...

SHAAP’s Top 20: A Manifesto for Action on Alcohol

Today, Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) launches its manifesto for action on alcohol ahead of the upcoming Holyrood election in May. SHAAP’s Top...

Joint SHAAP/AFS Comment on Scottish MUP case

Following today’s Procedural Hearing in the Inner Court of Session in Scotland to consider the opinion of the European Court of Justice in relation to...

Brown Alcohol Occasional online

Katherine Brown, Director of the Institute of Alcohol Studies in London, spoke at SHAAP’s 2015/16 Alcohol Occasional seminar series about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). She...

SHAAP/SARN Postgraduate & Early-career symposium 18th April

The Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN), in collaboration with Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP), will be holding a Postgraduate and Early Career Research...

Call for papers to present at Postgraduate symposium

Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP), in collaboration with the Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN), are holding a one-day symposium for postgraduate students and...

Prof Moira Plant Alcohol Occasional online

Professor Moira Plant of the University of the West of England and Curtin University, Perth, Australia, spoke at SHAAP’s 2015/16 Alcohol Occasional seminar series about...