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SHAAP response to EC Excise Duty Consultation

SHAAP has submitted a response to the European Commission Review of existing legislation on the structures of excise duties on alcohol and alcoholic beverages. In...

Research and Policy Briefing No.9 November 2015 now out

Research and Policy Briefing No.9 now out. Highlights include: Minimum Unit Pricinng update Scottish Health Survey 2015 MESAS 2015 Annual update on alcohol sales and...

SHAAP/GCU LGBT Seminar 15th December

SHAAP and researchers from Glasgow Caldeonian University’s Sustance Use and Misuse Group are pleased to announce a seminar in the Scottish Parliament on 15th December...

New alcohol-related hospital admission stats released

ISD Scotland have released their latest round of statistics for alcohol-related hospital admissions. The lastest figures for 2014/15 show a continuation of the downward trend...

SHAAP/SARN Alcohol Occasionals 2015/16

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’...

Peter Rice: Minimum Price needed now

Peter Rice in The Herald: If we want to help those affected by their own  and others’ drinking we need minimum price.

Eric Carlin: Bid to block MUP will be defeated

Eric Carlin in The National on the ECJ MUP opinion, social justice and being optimistic.

SHAAP & Medical Professions welcome ECJ Advocate General opinion

SHAAP and the medical professions in Scotland have welcomed the published opinion of the European Court of Justice Advocate General about Scotland’s MUP case. It...

Brussels Press Conference as European Opinion on MUP made public

SHAAP is hosting a press conference in Brussels tomorrow to respond to the opinion of the European Court of Justic Advocate General’s opinion on Scotland’s...

Dr Aisha Holloway Occasional online

Dr Aisha Holloway from the University of Edinburgh spoke at SHAAP’s 2015 Alcohol Occasional seminar series about her work on the use of photovoice as...

Research and Policy Briefing No.8 August 2015 now out

Research and Policy Briefing No.8 now out. Highlights include: OECD Report ECJ MUP Hearing May 6th 2015 European Alcohol and Health Forum and EU Alcohol...

EU Health Commissioner opens door to NGOs

Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis has written today to the Health NGOs who had signed a letterof resignation from the European Alcohol & Health Forum to re-engage. Recognising the conflicts of interests...