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In the UK, alcohol presents an urgent and growing problem: 70 people die due to alcohol every day. The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated this crisis, with alcohol-specific deaths having increased by 27% between 2019 and 2021, reaching...

Pricing, including taxation, is a key tool to address harm from alcohol and is identified by the World Health Organization as a ‘best buy’ policy (meaning it is both effective in reducing harm and cost-effective). However alcohol was 72%...

The International Journal of Drug Policy has published a special collection of articles focusing on UK drug strategy.

The collection includes:

• Introduction to special section on UK drug strategy
• Words matter: A commentary on the new UK...

Here you can read a briefing paper put together by Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems that examines minimum unit pricing in Scotland.

The paper provides an overview of:

• Alcohol harm in Scotland
• What is MUP and why was it...

Executive summary

The 10-year UK Government plan to combat illegal drugs sets out how we are doing more than ever to cut off the supply of drugs by criminal gangs and give people with a drug addiction a route to a productive and drug-free...

With NoLo products increasing in popularity among producers and customers, a new report looks at how these drinks are marketed in the UK and how and why consumers drink them.

Using interviews with drinkers and non-drinkers, as well as...

دلته تاسو کولی شئ د انګلستان حکومتونه د نشه یی توکو د غیر قانونی استعمال د کمولو لپاره لس کلن پلان ولولئ.

دا لس کلن پلان هم د ډیمی کارول بلک په مشرۍ د نشه یی توکو خپلواکو بیاکتنو ته رسمی ، اساسی ځواب دی او د هغې ټولې کلیدی سپارښتنې منی.

In 2020,1339 drug-related deaths were registered in Scotland.

This is a 5% increase compared to figures from 2019.

Other key findings show:

• The number of drug-related deaths has increased substantially over the last 20 years – there...

سکاټلینډ او ویلز د الکولو د پیرودلو په اړه د لږ مصرف او زیان د کمولو په هڅه کې، سکاټلینډ او ویلز د الکولو په پیرودلو کې لږ تر لږه د واحد نرخونه ( MUP ) معرفی کړل. 

لږ تر لږه د واحد قیمت (MUP) د قیمت ورکولو پالیسی ده چې د الکولو محصولاتو...

'نارینه او الکول: د مهمو موضوعاتو راپور' د ۲۰۱۹/۲۰۲۰ شااپ/ای اس نارینه او الکول سیمینار لړۍ کلیدی موندنې سره یوځای کوی، او د څېړنې ، پالیسۍ او تمرین لپاره سپارښتنې کوی. د راپور د لیدلو / ډاونلوډ کولو لپاره ، دلته کلیک وکړئ.

In February 2019, the UK government appointed Professor Dame Carol Black to undertake an independent review of drugs.

The aim of the review was to inform the government’s thinking on what more can be done to tackle the harm that drugs...

In July 2019, the UK Government set out its ambition for England to be smokefree by 2030. Government guidelines say the next steps should have been announced by 6th January 2020, but it has yet to do so.

Several key charities, including...