Policy
Policy in Action: A Tool for Measuring Alcohol Policy Implementation
ABSTRACT Europe has the highest alcohol consumption and alcohol-attributable disease burden in the world. In 2011, all 53 Member States of the WHO European Region endorsed the European action plan to reduce the harmful use of alcohol 2012...
Awareness of Standardised Tobacco Packaging among Adults and Young People during the Final Phase of Policy Implementation in Great Britain
Abstract Background: In May 2016, along with the latest European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), standardised packaging legislation was implemented in the UK. During the following 12-month transition period, both new and old types of...
Pubs Quizzed: What Publicans Think about Policy, Public Health and the Changing Trade
Key Points - There is significant common ground between public health bodies and publicans, and scope to develop policies approved of by both groups - Many publicans are deeply concerned about harmful alcohol consumption - Both see cheap...
Energy Drinks, Drug Use and the Developing Brain
New research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has found that university students who regularly consume energy drinks are more likely to develop alcohol use disorders later in life. The same students are also at greater...
Avoidable Emergency Department Visits: A Starting Point
Abstract Objective To better characterize and understand the nature of a very conservative definition of ‘avoidable’ emergency department (ED) visits in the United States to provide policy-makers insight into what interventions can target...
International City Health Conference 2017
The title for the conference, ‘Empowerment, Engagement and Partnership: participating to develop healthy cities’, reflects the belief that measures and actions for health promotion and urban development are more effective if the affected populations play an active and co-decisive role in the process of design, development and delivery.
Drug Science 2017 Conference
Drug Science 2017: Psychoactive substances in dialogue between scientific cultures and practice concepts
Changing Patterns of Substance Misuse in Adult Prisons and Service Responses
Inspection findings were supplemented by fieldwork in eight prisons in 2014 to generate an overall picture of drug use and responses to it in prisons in England and Wales. In the face of rapidly changing and varied drug use patterns, policy...
Online Drinking Interventions Shown to be Effective for Armed Service Personnel
Almost two thirds of men in the UK Armed Forces are considered to drink harmful amounts of alcohol. This is compared with around one third of the average population. According to a new study published in the Journal of the Royal Army...