Alcohol Alert, October 2019: This edition of the Alcohol Alert features a series of lectures given at the IAS Alcohol Marketing Conference: 'Protecting the vulnerable' on 16 October 2019.

This session was a policy workshop aimed at finding solutions to the issues raised during the conference. Featuring the following panel:

• Dan Parker (Living Loud)

• Gemma Crompton (Alcohol Focus Scotland)

• Richard Piper (Alcohol Change UK)

• Colin Shevills (Balance North East)

Chaired by David Jernigan PhD.

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Alcohol Alert, September 2019: This episode focuses on the release of a report looking into the advice given by midwives to pregnant women about alcohol consumption.

The survey behind the report ‘Alcohol guidelines for pregnant women: Barriers and enablers for midwives to deliver advice’ – highlights the inconsistency in official guidance that led to four out of ten midwives stating that they were not aware of the actual content of the 2016 alcohol guidelines on pregnancy.

One of the report’s co-authors, Lesley Smith, tells us more about the report’s origins and aims.

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Alcohol Alert, August 2019: Following on from NHS Health Scotland’s evaluation that minimum unit pricing legislation is being effectively enforced, this episode looks at the ways in which this is being done. Dr Peter Rice from Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) describes how the Scottish legal enforcement framework operates, such as the role of Licensing Standards Officers in offering expertise and mediation to license owners, and the frameworks basis in previous compliance schemes such as test purchases.

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Alcohol Alert, July 2019: This episode features an interview with Dr Emmert Roberts, who led a study discovering the extent to which patients at UK hospitals use alcohol to a harmful extent, or are dependent on alcohol, compared with the general population – ten times, and eight times respectively.

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Alcohol Alert, June 2019: This episode leads with a new IAS report exposing the extent of the ‘financial headache’ that being hungover at work causes the UK economy. Based on on survey findings, an estimated 75,000 to 89,000 workers are hungover or intoxicated on any given work day.

Policy Analyst Aveek Bhattacharya explains what the research shows; how much of a concern it is, and why, and; how much damage being hungover in the workplace does to the UK economy.

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Alcohol Alert, May 2019: This episode looks at the stark findings from the latest Global Drugs Survey, which finds that almost nine in every ten incidents of sexual assault involve alcohol. We invited researcher Alexandra Aldridge to explain the issues that the prevalence of alcohol in sexual relationships can raise.

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Alcohol Alert, April 2019: This episode focuses on data released ahead of the first anniversary of the Scottish Government's flagship health policy of minimum unit pricing. You might be mistaken in thinking the issue is a simple one – has minimum unit pricing led to a rise or fall in consumption? However, interpretation of the figures available so far suggests the story is more complex. Alison Douglas of Alcohol Focus Scotland cuts through the headlines to explain what the figures do and do not mean.

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Alcohol Alert, March 2019: This episode looks at the sponsorship deal between Scottish Women’s Football and alcohol policy NGO Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP). Director Eric Carlin explains more about how this historic deal came about.

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Alcohol Alert, February 2019: In this episode, we spoke to researcher Alex Barker about his latest project studying the impact of alcohol content on the video-on-demand services Netflix and Amazon Prime, and we asked how far this form of exposure was a driver of young people’s consumption habits.

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Alcohol Alert, January 2019: In this episode, we caught up with the British Medical Association Board of Science Chair Dame Professor Parveen Kumar on the new long-term plan for the national health service and what the proposals to expand alcohol care teams could mean for its future.

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