IAS Alcohol Alert August 2015: guidelines, gambling, drink driving, deaths in Scotland & more

The latest Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS) Alcohol Alert: August 2015 is now available (here for PDF version). Read the editorial here and articles below:

• Study questions usefulness of current drinking guidelines
• Report reveals burden alcohol places on North East ambulance staff
• The relationship between alcohol and gambling behaviours
• Alcohol’s harm to others: new British studies in a wider perspective
• Recovery Partnership Review of Alcohol Treatment Services in England: Final report released

Government reviews effect of alcohol addiction on employment

Drink-driving deaths remain at low levels

Wales: Middle-aged suffer worst from alcohol misuse

Even light drinking raises cancer risk

Scotland: Alcohol-related deaths up 5% on last year

One-in-five older people drink alcohol at unsafe levels