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Stories and messages

  • Guest post: Addiction isn’t just about brain chemistry, nor is it just bad choices
  • Interview: Making alcohol okay again — rehabilitating alcohol after Prohibition
  • US alcohol deaths remain elevated
  • Trump cuts expected to have “severe” alcohol harm impact
  • European cancer federation says QR codes a “licence to hide”
  • The case for pure free time hedonism
  • Put alcohol pleasure in perspective
  • Try changing your personal alcohol environment
  • Opinion: Alcohol-free beer hype is unhelpful
  • Would-be commissioner noncommittal on alcohol labelling
  • Guest post: Why Northern Territory alcohol reforms would be a disaster, according nine experts
  • Alcohol risk made simple
  • Alertness to commercial interests is an essential health defence
  • UPDATE: Men’s wellbeing charity defends controversial alcohol partnership
  • Alcohol-free beer in the EU*
  • Lancet experts recommend alcohol price controls to combat dementia
  • England’s absurd beer ad brings home need for regulation
  • QR codes are a sham
  • Alcohol kills twice as many men
  • Drink less alcohol, make fewer mistakes
  • Guest post: Most US women don’t know alcohol’s health risks
  • Alcohol, less is more
  • Avoid pressuring people
  • Alcohol calories
  • Alcohol is not useful
  • Alcohol unlearning curve
  • Alcohol worsens mental health problems
  • Alcohol is useless
  • Rethink alcoves
  • The great pyramid illusion
  • A health conscious life can be more carefree
  • Discover the invisi-fish
  • Guest post: People shouldn’t have to ‘get clean’ to get mental health treatment
  • US alcohol-induced deaths post pandemic
  • Brand new
  • The nanny private sector
  • UPDATE: Olympic beer promotion deal includes all AB InBev brands
  • Brits want alcohol-industry-protected policy
  • Why are we paying so much for alcohol-free drinks that aren’t taxed?
  • Australia’s system of taxing alcohol is ‘incoherent’, but our research suggests a single tax rate isn’t the answer
  • Try out some alcohol policies at home
  • Go figure: Alcohol jobs versus dependence
  • Enhance anything by never pushing
  • Trying to cut back on alcohol? Here’s what works
  • Parliamentary influence worries touch alcohol harm
  • Temperance, unfinished history
  • Deadly lockdown drinking polarisation quantified
  • Not drinking is pure hedonism
  • The year in alcohol
  • Stop alcohol ad “bombardment”, say experts and MPs
  • Some young Nigerians say heavy drinking is fun: controls must keep pace with culture
  • Orkney’s link in nascent alcohol-free hotel chain
  • Grey-area drinking: pandemic’s heavy drinkers are ignoring the health risks
  • World champion alcohol-free beers 2021
  • Our legacy social medium
  • On seven years working on alcohol-freedom
  • Brits back youth alcohol ad ban amid record deaths
  • Record alcohol deaths follow service cuts
  • Four percent of cancers linked to alcohol
  • Just one in five Brits know alcohol basics
  • Alcohol and driving: an informative incompatibility
  • What about cap and trade for alcohol?
  • Euro beer placement rules unclear for non-religious
  • Another Round: More troubling than entertaining
  • Make your own: Alcohol-free vodka
  • Alcohol shows ways we can improve
  • Massive public support for alcohol labelling
  • DIY alcohol label idea
  • How to think-tank
  • Guest post: We tested claims that limiting alcohol advertising in South Africa would violate rights
  • The alcohol “unlearning curve”
  • Brits drank less alcohol in early pandemic
  • Visualising alcohol’s calories
  • Recovery Channel Podcast: interview
  • Health minister meets alcohol industry over alcohol-free drinks
  • Make a Burns Night dram 0.0
  • UPDATED: UK lockdown alcohol volume estimates disagree
  • How to filter unhelpful online ads
  • Investors favour alcohol
  • Discussion: The international problem tackling mental health and alcohol issues together
  • All washed up in Manchester and the Midwest
  • Mental illness and substance use: the two often go hand in hand so why is it so difficult to get help?
  • Why I wrote a second alcohol book
  • How much alcohol are we really drinking post-covid?
  • Six recovery recommendations
  • Nearly free “spirit”
  • The case for an alcohol advertising cap
  • Alcohol and beyond with Alison Canavan
  • Minimal drinking helps prepare for covid-19
  • Covid-19 shows life-saving policies are popular
  • A coronavirus ethos can help with alcohol
  • Alcohol: comfort or bounce?
  • Video: Meet the 170-year-old sobriety movement
  • Video/podcast: A more rational alcohol tax
  • Dry January is a vital part of the alcohol debate
  • Alcohol: Why not all use millilitres?
  • Little or no alcohol is a good move for our mental health
  • Alcohol education is essential
  • Alcohol safety labelling may be about to get worse
  • Tepid reception for industry alcohol labelling pledge
  • Exclusive: Alcohol safety labelling “grace period” kept quiet for 22 months
  • Rocketman lands admirably rich alcohol story
  • The astonishing usefulness of alcohol-free beer
  • Alcohol worsens disadvantages
  • CAMRA launches minimum alcohol price investigation
  • Forging language for change
  • Guideline labelling’s welcome return leaves open question

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