IAS Alert April 2016: heavy drinking in the home, duty cuts warning, cancer risk & more

The latest Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS) Alcohol Alert: April 2016 is now available (here for PDF version). Read the editorial here and articles below:

• Heavy drinking at home now typical feature of British life

• Alcohol duty cuts will cause increase in deaths, warn health experts

• IAS blog – Alcohol and pregnancy: understanding of uncertainty and precaution from a cross-cultural perspective

• Changing the environment? Nudging pubs and zero alcohol awards

• 9 out of 10 people don't link alcohol with cancer

• Call for written evidence on the relationship between alcohol-related harm and employment in the over 50s

• Alcohol taxes would have to rise 28% to match minimum unit pricing in Scotland

• Alcohol to be sold at Scottish motorway services

• HMRC reforms to minimise alcohol duty fraud

• The trouble with drinking guidelines: What, in the world, is a standard drink?

• Three drinks a day "significantly increases" stomach cancer risk

• Emergency service leaders call for lower drink-drive limit