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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...

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...