Alcohol understanding for all
This is the second year of our Research Priority “Treatment and Recovery Today” and applicants to this scheme must show clearly how their proposal addresses this priority. … This programme provides up to £75,000 for projects that address emerging issues in alcohol research, employ novel theoretical or methodological approaches, or pilot new work in treatment or service delivery.
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Ireland’s upper house last week passed a long-awaited bill introducing minimum alcohol prices and requiring warnings of alcohol’s cancer risks and the protection of children from marketing.
According to the bill passed on Friday drinks labels will also need to list their ingredients for the first time. Ads as well as labels will have to include warnings of the cancer risk.
To stop children being weaned onto alcohol brands, shops will be required to hide alcohol marketing behind a 1.5m-high screen.
The bill will return to the Dáil, the lower house, next year. The government first introduced the bill in December 2015 and has been the subject of fierce lobbying since.
Ireland is the second country in the world to pass laws to require alcohol is sold above a minimum price after Scotland became the first in November.
Only Canada’s Yukon has so far introduced cancer warnings, and that is in a trial. ■
The alcohol industry’s Portman Group (PG) is using a study it co-funded to resist calls for providing health information on alcoholic drink labels. Here’s a look at what the study actually says.
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This is one of the questions I’ve been asked most since Alcohol Companion was released. A fair question for which I’ve still to come up with a clear answer. The problem is there was no blinding flash of inspiration. Every time I remember wanting to know more about alcohol’s effects, I remember an earlier occasion. My memory of having these questions fades at, perhaps, six or seven, as they do, but I am sure I was curious before that. And, why wouldn’t I be? What could be more tantalising than a commonplace item nobody can tell you very much about? Writing a book on it was a fairly straightforward way to finally get some answers. Now I wonder why I left it so long?
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Your holidaying correspondent, though no connoisseur, could not help thinking this Austrian organic alcohol free beer has something a bit extra to it. And people with far more refined palates seem to agree, so it has been added to Alcohol Companion’s Top of the Pops, a highly unscientific list of drinkable alcohol free beers, wines and spirits. It does not seem to be available outside Austria at the moment, although perhaps it is in Japan. ■