alcohol

Health and cancer risks associated with low levels of alcohol consumption

Scientific article

"According to the latest WHO estimates, alcohol consumption contributed to 3 million deaths in 2016 globally and was responsible for 5·1% of the global burden of disease and injury." This statement, published in the Lancet Public Health...

SARN Early Career Researcher Conference

23 January 2023

Edinburgh

United Kingdom

The Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN) Early Career Researcher Conference (ECR) is taking place on Monday 23 January 2023 at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. This networking event will take place in person from 13:00-17:00 GMT and lunch will be served to all attendees.

Young People and Alcohol, What do we know and what can we do about it?

Video and audio recordings

This webinar was hosted by the HSE Health and Wellbeing Alcohol Programme as part of EU Alcohol Awareness Week. The panel of speakers will discuss the statistics around alcohol use among adolescents and young people in Ireland and the wider...

Targeted epigenomic editing ameliorates adult anxiety and excessive drinking after adolescent alcohol exposure

Scientific article

4 May 2022

Abstract Adolescent binge drinking is a major risk factor for psychiatric disorders later in life including alcohol use disorder. Adolescent alcohol exposure induces epigenetic reprogramming at the enhancer region of the activity-regulated...

Young people and alcohol – What do we know and what can we do about it?

30 November 2022

Online

This webinar is hosted by the HSE Health and Wellbeing Alcohol Programme as part of EU Alcohol Awareness Week.

Implementing Community-Level Policies to Prevent Alcohol Misuse

Video and audio recordings

This webinar highlights findings from SAMHSA’s guide titled, Implementing Community-Level Policies to Prevent Alcohol Misuse, which explores evidence-based, community-level strategies to prevent alcohol misuse. Following an overview of the...

People, Planet, or Profit: alcohol’s impact on a sustainable future

Book

Alcohol is a discretionary, non-essential product that causes over 200 health conditions.1 The harm that alcohol causes to health, society and the economy is already well-known. However, the damage caused to the environment, sustainable...

Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency

Scientific article

Background Relatively little is known about how risky drinkers attempt to moderate their drinking in the absence of specialist support. The broader literature has identified multiple potential strategies that people use to cope with...