Today Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs we have been growing some extra brain cells, hanging out with Prof Carol Emslie GCU Research Centre for Health (ReaCH) & colleagues Glasgow Caledonian University at their #PowerOfPartnerships event. Thanks also Mariebeth Kilbride Scottish Drugs Forum for great #ClickNDeliver product placement behind us! #HowToSaveALife

Amazing opportunity to come and join our fab and friendly team!

🚨 NEW JOB POSTING 📢

We are looking to recruit a new Hastings Fellow to join Institute for Social Marketing and Health - UoS at University of Stirling to work on alcohol, vaping, and other commercial determinants of health.

🌐 Advert: stir.ac.uk/9vs

📅 Deadline: 3rd June 2024.

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This is why I'm *really* worried about the record high alcohol-specific deaths figures that ONS published yesterday.

We modelled the impact of increases in drinking during the pandemic on health, and what's happened is much worse than our worst case scenario (those dots😬).

Last call for this seminar on all things alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks which is ***Wednesday this week (24th)***

There will be colourful diagrams, graphs and an ostrich.

We are hiring @GHPU! Details below for a 2 year research fellow post on commercial determinants working with our work package on the UKRI health hub on commercial determinants. Deadline 20/5! Do get in touch with any questions! #CDoH School of Social & Political Science Edinburgh GECI-PH network elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

📅 Diary date ⏰

Next week Niamh Fitzgerald will join John Holmes to discuss the public health implications of no- and low-alcohol drinks.

This FREE event is a SHAAP / Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN) Occasionals Webinar.

Wed 24th April: 12:45-14:00

Sign up👇

bit.ly/4aiZ8Oy

⏰ Just under a week to go until the next SHAAP / SARN Alcohol Occasional seminar!

John Holmes and Niamh Fitzgerald will talk about no- and low-alcohol drinks and their implications for public health.

Register now (for free!) here: bit.ly/4aiZ8Oy

🚨New paper alert🚨 from our NIHR Research alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks project.

This editorial in Addiction Journal led by Nathan Critchlow discusses terminology for advertising of no/lo products that share branding with standard alcoholic drinks.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ad…

🚨New publication🆕

Editorial by Nathan Critchlow and Niamh Fitzgerald from Institute for Social Marketing and Health - UoS and John Holmes from SARG - SCHARR out now in Addiction Journal.

They disentangle the myriad terms used to describe the marketing of alcohol-free/low-alcohol.

Read more👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ad…

By the GMB Union's logic, minimum unit pricing should be uprated to 63p, but instead they are calling for it to be scrapped.

'That does make you wonder what they are making a fuss about.'

Grateful for the opportunity to speak at this fantastic Scottish Drugs Forum event. I’ve learnt a lot, and it’s not even lunch!

Full feasibility study available here

edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/down…

In Scotland, the GMB union have been vocal in calling for the proposed increase in the MUP threshold from 50p to 65p to be scrapped, on the basis that this is a 30% rise, while wages and disposable incomes have risen by barely 1% since 2018.

But wait...

gmbscotland.org.uk/newsroom/gmb-s…

Campus cormorant

How much do Europeans know about the link between alcohol use and cancer?
Apparently not too much...
bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
We asked almost 20,000 drinkers from 14 EU countries if they believed that alcohol increases the risk of certain diseases
Here is what we found: 🧵

New from our Youth Drinking in Decline project: Youth drinking is declining – myths about the trend, busted theconversation.com/youth-drinking… via The Conversation

🚭Last SPECTRUM Research Consortium work is hot off the press in Tobacco Control 📢
We dove into tons of transaction data to calculate profits from tobacco sales in Scotland and estimate impacts from different forms of tobacco licence fees.
Here's the link doi.org/10.1136/tc-202… and key findings... 🧵

Want to help influence research & be rewarded for your time? The University of Sheffield, University of Stirling & UCL are recruiting members for a public involvement group to shape a study on the public health impact of changes to the way the UK Government taxes alcohol. More info: tinyurl.com/yunxkp28

We've got a new paper in the Journal of Public Health:

How did alcohol consumption in England change in 2020/21 and what are the long-term health implications of these changes?

doi.org/10.1093/pubmed…

Colleagues interested in #alcoholharms #prevention might like to 👀 at the witnesses at Tuesday's Health and Social Care Comittee. We have understandably expressed our significant concern to the chair.
committees.parliament.uk/work/7205/prev…