'We need to make binge-drinking as socially unacceptable as smoking. Alcoholism tears apart families, ends friendships, ruins lives and kills people. There is something very, very wrong here.'

Gary Nunn 🏳️‍🌈🚴🏼🇬🇧🇦🇺 on children drinking and the rise in alcohol harm.

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Interested in:
📺 the nature of alcohol marketing
✅ how regulations can help create a future free from alcohol harm

Join Alcohol Health Alliance UK's first #AHAManifestoSeries to hear from Dr Alex Barker and our very own Michaela Jones

📅 11:00 Thurs 9 May

Register 🔽
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📢 April is #StressAwarenessMonth

There are cultural cues all around telling us that #Alcohol helps us relax - in movies, TV shows & of course #BigAlcohol marketing

But does alcohol actually relieve stress? 🤔

Check out our short video for more🔽

Proud to endorse a new set of materials for #PublicHealth professionals to introduce colleagues to the issues around commercial determinants of health.

Congratulations Anna Brook, Katherine Körner (she/her), @maisie333 & Mark Petticrew who developed the materials.
➡️bit.ly/4baS72G

Why has the rise in the alcohol-specific death rate been particularly stark among women?

IAS's Dr Katherine Severi said women were targeted with “aggressive marketing” and “gendered promotions” that portray alcohol as a tool for female...

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Alcohol directly causes cardiovascular disease (CVD).

And in 2021, almost half of all alcohol-related hospital admissions were for CVD.

Watch our full film for more information: youtube.com/watch?v=lh7TzX…

#HeartFailureAwarenessDays European Society of Cardiology

📢 April is #BowelCancer AwarenessMonth

#Alcohol is one of the leading causes of preventable cancers - including #BowelCancer ⚠️

But #BigAlcohol would rather you didn't know that🤫

Find out more about our work on alcohol labelling 🔽
alcohol-focus-scotland.org.uk/campaigns-poli…

#BMJInvestigation Public health experts are calling for a ban on alcohol industry funded education programmes in UK universities and schools, which they say normalise drinking and downplay the long term health risks of #alcohol
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Register now for our 3rd Alcohol Occasional seminar!

James Morris & Dr Gemma Mitchell will discuss how the language we choose may help us to reduce alcohol-related harms.

🗓️ Wed 22 May
⏰ 12.45 - 2pm
🌐 Online

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One of the reasons for the shocking rise in alcohol deaths is due to alcohol becoming increasingly affordable in recent years.

@HMTreasury decisions to cut and freeze duty rates have therefore contributed to this rise in harm.

See our full Price film: youtube.com/watch?v=FVTfJI…

📢 April is #StressAwarenessMonth

Did you know that #Alcohol can actually increase stress in the long term by causing changes to how your brain functions?🧠

Regular and heavy alcohol use can also increase your chance of developing serious health or relationship problems

Here's the rates of alcohol-specific deaths in England by single year of age from 2001-2022. You don't need a magnifying glass to spot the pandemic's impact.

'Advertising regulations have been introduced by the government for other harmful products like cigarettes and junk food, we urgently need a comparable approach for alcohol.' - Sir Ian Gilmore on alcohol advertising and the impact on children drinking.

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📢 April is #BowelCancerAwarenessMonth

46% of Scots still don't know that #Alcohol is a leading cause of #Cancer globally

#BigAlcohol doesn't want you to know🤫

It's time to end broken industry promises and introduce mandatory health warnings on alcohol⚠️

This is a brilliant article by #BMJinvestigation on how alcohol industry funded educational programmes serve commercial interests and are embedded in UK schools and universities #CDoH Mark Petticrew May van Schalkwyk Commercial Determinants Research Group at LSHTM IAS SHAAP Alcohol Change UK Alcohol Focus Scotland

Many thanks to Monica Lennon MSP for raising a number of timely questions relating to alcohol treatment and care 👏

Read the questions:
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It's time to put #AllOurRightsinLaw !
To find out everything you need to know about Scotland's new Human Rights Bill, and why putting our international human rights into Scots law will make a difference, read our short briefing: buff.ly/3ug0Gtt