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Heavy marketing has created a buzz around alcohol-free beer diverting vital public attention from surging rates of alcohol harm. The stakes are too high to let commercial hype eclipse evidence-based action. Alcohol deaths were up 33% on pre-pandemic levels in 2022 in the UK, for example. … [Read more...] about Opinion: Alcohol-free beer hype is unhelpful

Also on Substack Hungarian health Commissioner-designate Oliver Varhelyi faces further questions having last night offered MEPs no clear reassurance he would deliver long-overdue alcohol health labelling proposals. "We have just introduced a couple of labelling conditions for wine: … [Read more...] about Would-be commissioner noncommittal on alcohol labelling

by Cassandra Wright, Menzies School of Health Research; Beau Jayde Cubillo, Menzies School of Health Research; John Holmes, University of Sheffield; Mark Mayo, Menzies School of Health Research; Mark Robinson, The University of Queensland; Michael Livingston, Curtin University; Nicholas Taylor, … [Read more...] about Guest post: Why Northern Territory alcohol reforms would be a disaster, according nine experts

Knowledge is necessary to inspire, shape and sustain positive change, with its dissemination providing the conditions for this change to occur. Alcohol is no exception. We cannot require anyone to learn about alcohol, no more than we can require them to learn about physics or the Brontë sisters, … [Read more...] about Alcohol education is essential

In December 2020 South Africa announced a new ban on alcohol sales. Phill Magakoe / AFP via Getty Images Adam Bertscher, University of Bath and Leslie London, University of Cape Town The lockdown restrictions introduced in South Africa to curb the initial spread of COVID-19 in March 2020 were the … [Read more...] about Guest post: We tested claims that limiting alcohol advertising in South Africa would violate rights