One of the advantages of the Nordic alcohol retail system is that this data, which is vital for understanding trends in harm, is available to the public quickly. In other places health bodies have to buy in this data.

Gaining an understanding of the circumstances that lead to binge drinking and #alcohol #dependence whilst using a #motivationalinterviewing approach may help identify how harmful drinking patterns might be shifted to the benefit of the patient, thereby reducing #suicide risk.

Our findings suggest that clinicians should inquire particularly carefully about suicidal behaviour in anyone with signs of harmful drinking, using non-judgemental and sensitive questioning, as this provides an important opportunity for therapeutic assessment and risk management.

We found a linear association between total #AUDIT score & outcomes. Three of 6 specific domains of alcohol use ( #dependence symptoms, harmful effects of drinking and #binge drinking) were associated with increased odds of all 3 outcomes.

Wendy Burn CBE (She/her) This is what I wish more doctors understood. See it in even non-anorexic but malnourished patients all the time - a lack of understanding of the fact that their brains will not be working properly. Starved brains are not healthy brains.

Alcohol duty provides desperately needed revenue to fund public services on the front line of alcohol harm. #DutyToRecover

Alcohol duty should be automatically adjusted with inflation to ensure rates retain their value over time and continue to protect society from the devastating harms of alcohol.

✍️ Write to the Chancellor to support alcohol duty:
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#DutyToRecover
Alcohol Health Alliance UK

What have we learned about suicide through research? Discover the top findings! ⬇️

Interesting study about maternal drinking motives. Useful for self-reflection.

Professor Ann McNeill Ann McNeill Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience National Addiction Centre finishing off our 2 weeks of #NVIE Office for Health Improvement and Disparities tweets with a final message about #vaping harms and perceptions

Read the full report here 👇
gov.uk/government/pub…

Martin Dockrell ASH

Hey Twitter, we've got a shiny new preprint:

Led by Jenn Dowd, we looked at deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide in midlife in the US, Canada and the UK nations and how these have changed since 2001. With graphs.

doi.org/10.1101/2022.1…

We think there are a couple of key messages here.

Firstly, deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide are on wildly different trajectories in some countries, bringing into question that value of a single, cohesive 'deaths of despair' narrative...

There's no UK restriction on this study! We're looking for mums to fill in a new drinking motives scale. Please share original tweet as widely as possible.
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#MaternalHealth #Alcohol #HarmReduction Shalini Arunogiri Dr Sally Hunt NCT FASD United (formerly NOFAS) Sandra Butcher

The Renaissance Awards - offered by the Mental Health Collective MHC_UK - small grants for individuals who are using their experience of mental ill-health in a positive way. Pls retweet/share. Deadline 2/11/22. mentalhealthcollective.org.uk/renaissance-aw…

Please join us for this online talk/webinar. I have an air horn lined up if anyone says ‘hippy crack’ unironically

Look out for the free e-book “Alcohol No Ordinary Commodity” coming soon from international experts. This evidence should guide our approach to tackling this public health emergency in Scotland #GAPA_VE Maree Todd Dr Sandesh Gulhane MSP Gillian Mackay MSP Paul O’Kane MSP 🇺🇦 Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP🔶🇺🇦

Interested in what works to prevent and reduce alcohol harm for both drinkers and those around them? An updated review of the evidence shows that upstream interventions on price, availability and marketing are the most effective measures says Prof Tom Babor 1/2

Tonight in Parliament I have highlighted the need for a laser focus to be brought to managing alcohol harm, not least liver disease through diagnostics and management. Patients are getting younger and sicker. I'm worried.