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Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, Neil Gray, has added his support to the Alcohol Free Childhood campaign, aimed at ensuring children and young people grow up free from the harmful effects of alcohol marketing.

Near record alcohol deaths see experts from over 70 organisations demand the Scottish Government take urgent action Ahead of the publication of the 2025 Programme for Government a group of more than 70 organisations are demanding that the Scottish

Last week Alcohol Focus Scotland and more than 70 partners published a call to the Scottish Government to take urgent action to tackle the highest deaths from alcohol in 15 years by prioritising increasing early detection and treatment of liver

Alcohol Focus Scotland has published a new report exploring how alcohol marketing affects LGBT+ people in Scotland, and how the industry’s presence in LGBT+ spaces and events, particularly Pride, is being perceived by the community itself.

The Scottish Government has today [Tuesday 17 June] published its new Population Health Framework. The Population Health Framework sets out Scottish Government’s and COSLA’s long-term collective approach to improving Scotland’s

Cancer Prevention Action Week 2025 Scotland can once again lead the way on alcohol

Scotland’s alcohol consumption continues to exceed safe levels new data from Public Health Scotland shows.

At Alcohol Focus Scotland, we’ve been exploring the impact of alcohol marketing on different communities – and most recently, the LGBT+ community.

The UK Government has today (3 July 2025) published 'Fit for the Future', their new 10 Year Health Plan for England. The plan was billed as a major shift towards prevention, yet fails to include any of the most cost-effective and

Efforts to change Scotland’s long-standing policy on alcohol in football stadia have gathered pace this summer. In what has been misleadingly been billed as a ‘pilot’ (implying robust, independent design and evaluation), several