IAS Alert September 2018: cheap alcohol calls, FASD, treatment levy, Diageo & more

The latest Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS) Alcohol Alert: September 2018 is now available (here for PDF version). Read the editorial here and articles below:

• COVER STORY – Postcard campaign on cheap drink launched
• FASD a ‘hidden epidemic’
• Pay 3p more for a beer, save lives with an Alcohol Treatment Levy
• MUP boosts alcohol sales for Scottish stores, study says
• Jon Ashworth: Alcohol addiction services will no longer be neglected
• Alcohol industry CSR actions ineffective
• NIAAA tweaks alcohol-cancer link understatement

Drink drive limit: Legally safe, but still at risk

Diageo bosses challenged on labelling

Alcohol must be recognised as a drug

Health agency partnership with Drinkaware sparks row

1 in 20 deaths worldwide down to alcohol

Consumers ‘kept in dark’ over alcohol labelling

Wealthy drinkers more likely to binge