New Media, New Problem - Alcohol, Young People and the Internet
This report considers the increasingly prominent role that the internet plays as a means of promoting alcohol use. Download the report
Alcohol consumption and mortality: modelling risks for men and women at different ages
To estimate the relation between alcohol consumption and risk of death, the level of alcohol consumption at which risk is least, and how these vary with age and sex. Download the report.
Young people, alcohol and influences - A study of young people and their relationship with alcohol
This report presents the findings from a major study of young people and their relationship with alcohol, and explores the wide range of influences on their drinking
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Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland’s Alcohol Strategy. Setting the Scene: Theory of change and baseline picture
NHS Health Scotland has been tasked by Scottish Government to lead the monitoring and evaluation of Scotland’s alcohol strategy.
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Alcohol Statistics Scotland 2011
This biennial publication presents the latest available information from a range of national data sources relating to alcohol. The four main sections are: The Alcohol Market, Alcohol Consumption, Alcohol and Health Harm and Alcohol and Social Harm.
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Scottish Health Survey
Results from the latest Scottish Health Survey.
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The Societal Cost of Alcohol Misuse in Scotland for 2007
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Young people and alcohol:influences on how they drink
The report identifies the influence of both existing cultural attitudes around alcohol, and new and emergent attitudes that separate younger drinkers' consumption from that of other age groups.
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The price of a drink
Levels of consumption and price paid per unit of alcohol by Edinburgh’s ill drinkers with a comparison to wider alcohol sales in Scotland
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Scottish Health Survey - The Glasgow effect
Topic report in the Scottish Health Survey series investigating the existence of "The Glasgow effect"
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Alcohol consumption and family life
This study examined how parents teach young children (aged 5 to 12) about alcohol. It explored parental attitudes towards alcohol, and family drinking practices, using a national survey and in-depth case studies.
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Alcohol-use disorders:preventing harmful drinking
This costing report accompanies the NICE public health guiidance report: Alcohol-use disorders: preventing the development of hazardous and harmful drinking
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A label for exclusion - Support for alcohol-misusing offenders
Policy paper from the Centre for Mental Health, by Rob Fitzpatrick and Laura Thorne, whose findings show that offenders who drink at harmful levels do not get enough support to turn their lives around.
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Untold Damage: Childrens accounts of living with harmful parental drinking
New research reveals that a high number of calls to ChildLine from young people concerned about their parents harmful drinking come from children in Scotland compared to the rest of the UK.
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Under the influence - the damaging effect of alcohol marketing on young people
BMA published report, September 2009, examining the damaging effect of alcohol marketing on young people. It aims to identify effective ways of protecting young people from the influence of alcohol promotion and marketing, thereby redressing the excessively pro-alcohol social norms to which they are exposed.
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