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It is time the Government listened more to the CMO and the President of the RCP and less to the drinks and retail industry. If everyone drank responsibly the alcohol industry might lose about 40% of its sales and some estimates are higher. In formulating its alcohol strategy, the Government must be more sceptical about the industry’s claims that it is in favour of responsible drinking [Health Committee, UK Government]
In this report, Corporations and Health Watch analyzes changes in alcohol industry responses to criticisms of its marketing practices. One source for such an analysis is the documents disclosed by the tobacco industry[Corporations and Health Watch, USA]
These once confidential internal documents provide new evidence on the drinks industry’s concerns about possible alcohol control measures and the strategies used to help overcome these concerns. These document findings justify the public health community’s cynicism about the alcohol industry… [Australian Medical Journal]
This briefing paper offers a guide to public health professionals and activists for understanding and responding to the alcohol industry’s public awareness and education initiatives. Its central thesis is that these programs can only be understood in the context of the industry’s marketing and political agendas [American Medical Association, USA]
The Portman Group’s publicly stated aim is “to promote sensible drinking” However, according to Professor Nick Heather, former Director of the Newcastle Centre for Alcohol and Drug Studies, the Group’s real agenda is rather different: “The attempt to distance alcohol as a drug from other kinds of drug and to give it a good face is the main activity of groups like the Portman Group.” [Spin Profiles, UK]
Hello to you all from Ice Age Britain. As you will know from Sarah’s most recent blog we are getting geared up for moving Wired In community on to the next stage, and we really need your help [Michaela, WIred In]
I titled my last entry ‘good intentions’ and boy am I starting to realise how hard it is to follow through with them. Am I in the wrong place, I ask myself, and do I really need to blog about my never ending, never getting anywhere fight with this evil addiction of mine? [Fiona, WIred In]
A couple of posts have got me thinking about the role of methadone clinics as we move ever more towards a world of recovery. I found it very interesting how Fiona, (in her blog, ‘It’s not easy’) referred to getting her methadone increased to compensate for the heroin she would not be using anymore [Mark Gilman, Wired In]
Whatever the cause, the result is a country with a significant drink problem. The figures quoted by the committee give the lie to the claim that alcohol is responsibly consumed by all but a minority [Mark Easton, BBC, UK]
Towards the end of the last year some of us in the cannabis law reform campaign began to feel they had a new hero in Professor David Nutt and perhaps in some ways they did [UKCIA, UK]
The group discuss the future of detox, and the speed with witch people can access detox in the North West. Therapeutic process’ are also on the agenda, the group look at how these process’ can be measured, as evidence based results become a priority {21’46”} [Inexcess TV, UK]
Do you agree or disagree with the government’s approach [BBC, UK]
Nick describes the background of a conference he convened with Rudy Vuchinich on behavioural economics and its relevance to addiction, and the book that arose from this conference [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
An outbreak of cases of anthrax among injecting drugs users has been continuing in Scotland since December 2009. A number of the cases have died from the infection which is thought to have been transmitted through contaminated heroin [Health Protection Agency, UK]
Britain has had a long and sometimes problematic relationship with alcohol. James Nicholls looks back over five centuries to examine the many, often unsuccessful, attempts to reform the nation’s drinking habits [History Today, UK]
Government responses to Britain’s “shocking” rise in binge drinking and alcoholism have ranged from “the non-existent to the ineffectual”, the health select committee warns [Guardian, UK]
First they came for smokers. Now the health lobby is after drinkers. But prohibition has its own dangers [Observer, UK]
Watch Webcast Discussion about Scientific Approach to Keep Youth Safe from Drugs [National Institute on Drug Abuse, USA]
Australian employers are increasingly forcing staff and job applicants to undergo drug tests as growth in the testing market soars by up to 30 per cent a year [The Age, Australia]
The impact of drugs such as cocaine, heroin, cannabis, and ecstasy on the lives of Australians, especially young people, has been well documented. But now we have a new, creeping menace – the abuse of prescription drugs [Sunday Times Editorial, Australia]
