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SHAAP and Scottish Women’s Football announce renewed partnership during Awareness Week on Alcohol Related Harm

SHAAP and Scottish Women’s Football announce renewed partnership during Awareness Week on Alcohol Related Harm   Today Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) and...

SHAAP Director Elinor Jayne responds to the Autumn Budget 2021

SHAAP Director Elinor Jayne responds to the Alcohol Duty changes announced by the Chancellor in the Autumn Budget 2021.    The Chancellor’s five-point plan for...

New study published by Public Health Scotland finds minimal change in alcohol-related crime following implementation of MUP

A new study, published today by Public Health Scotland has shown that the introduction of minimum unit pricing (MUP) in 2018 in Scotland had minimal...

Report Launch: ‘Alcohol marketing during the Six Nations’

On Thursday 30 September 2021, Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP), the Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS) and Alcohol Action Ireland (AAI), held an...

Report Launch: SHAAP teams up against NCDs

SHAAP has joined nine leading Scottish health charities to produce a report Non-Communicable Disease Prevention: Priorities for 2021/22 calling for urgent action on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) caused...

National Records of Scotland publishes new data on alcohol-specific deaths

The National Records of Scotland (NRS) have published new data [opens PDF in new window] for alcohol-specific deaths registered in Scotland in 2020. The number...

Men’s Health Week 2021 – Infographics and resources

This year’s Men’s Health Week runs from 14-20 June. SHAAP are partnering with Men’s Health Forum Scotland during Men’s Health Week to highlight the high...

The public, leading health experts and politicians back changes to alcohol labelling

A poll from YouGov asked the public what legal requirements they would like to see for alcohol labelling. The majority asked supported more information being...

Scottish Parliament election 2021- what do the manifestos say about alcohol?

Ahead of this year’s election to the Scottish Parliament, SHAAP has analysed the policy proposals on alcohol put forward in each of the main political...

SHAAP Vacancy – Director

SHAAP is seeking to appoint a Director who will spearhead the collective and independent efforts of the Medical Royal Colleges and Faculties in Scotland to...

SHAAP statement on differential duty rates

SHAAP supports the principle of differential duty rates for on and off trade retailers in the current market conditions in the UK. Duty rates in...

Public Health Scotland publishes two studies on alcohol sales and consumption in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic

Public Health Scotland has today published two studies on the impact of initial COVID-19 restrictions on alcohol sales and consumption. The sales study found that during the first...