New analysis from AFS and @UK_AHA has confirmed that alcohol companies are keeping consumers in the dark about health risks
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What’s really on alcohol labels?
❌ 1 in 5 don’t meet even basic guidelines
❌ Only 28% list ingredients
❌ Health warnings? Almost nowhere
The largest ever review of alcohol labels shows why voluntary labelling doesn’t work - and why regulation is needed now.
Key barriers identified include funding pressures, staff shortages and capacity - alcohol affects far more people than drugs, with an estimated 5,000 - 10,000 additional service contacts per year.
Our next Occasional takes place on 7 September with Abbie Irving, register here👇️
This report is the most comprehensive audit to date of alcohol labels in the UK and demonstrates why mandatory alcohol labelling is needed.
Abbie Irving will deliver the third Alcohol Occasional seminar of 2026, focussing on Community Alcohol Partnerships (CAP).
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🎧️ Conversations about Alcohol: podcast for primary care teams
For Ep 3, our host Dr Rachel Phillips is joined by Dr Claire Gordon & Dr Stephen Smith to talk about Alcohol Related Brain Damage – what it looks like, who's vulnerable and why early recognition is so important
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With the World Cup kicking off, Sam O'Brien West shares his experience of alcohol and football. Drinking from age 14, often the drunkest in the room. Now 3 years sober, he reflects on what changed.
"I still feel the same euphoria when somebody scores."
Alcohol Focus Scotland
Yesterday's @sarnalcohol.bsky.social Alcohol Occasional heard from Dr Ayotunde Isiaka and John Mooney on whether Scotland's MAT Standards - designed to improve drug treatment - could be adapted for alcohol...
At least 62 diseases are entirely caused by alcohol and dozens more are partly caused by it.
A new review from Harvard researchers, published in Addiction, brings together some of the latest evidence on alcohol and health. Crucially, many of these harms can be slowed by cutting down or stopping
Expert interviews were broadly supportive. Adapted standards could enable earlier intervention, improve consistency of care across NHS Boards and third sector services, and help identify gaps in current provision. Some areas in Scotland are already applying MAT to alcohol locally...
... The patterns described in Ireland are familiar in Scotland. Early alcohol use carries serious, long term consequences for mental and physical health. What's needed? Decisive action on availability, advertising and early intervention.
