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Webinar: Alcohol Marketing and Public Health: What Do We Know and What Can We Do?

15 April 2020

Webinar

United States

Join us on Wednesday, 15 April, 2020, for a new session of the Alcohol and Health Webinar series, titled: "Alcohol Marketing and Public Health: What Do We Know and What Can We Do?", presented by Dr. David Jernigan .

The session will be in English.

Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Row 1: Finding and Advising Risky Drinkers

Book

1 April 2020

FINDING AND ADVISING RISKY DRINKERS Time to consolidate the lessons of the last five instalments of our course on alcohol treatment research, developing your understanding of seminal and key research evaluating a core public health strategy...

Alcohol Sales Banned in Greenland

News

For many young people, home is not a place of safety. As countries introduce lockdown measures, it is important that the wellbeing of young people is protected. In a move to reduce potential violence against children during coronavirus...

COVID-19 and Drinking Behaviour

News

With most countries adopting measures to encourage social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic, there are notable changes to drinking behaviours. Health professionals are calling on people to avoid using alcohol as a coping strategy in...

Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix: Generating System-Wide Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention

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18 March 2020

GENERATING SYSTEM-WIDE ALCOHOL SCREENING AND BRIEF INTERVENTION Latest instalment of fortnightly course on the evidence for alcohol treatment and brief interventions. Context is that Britain’s National Institute for Health and Care...

Alcohol-free Childhood: Investigation by the Children’s Parliament

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Alcohol has a constant presence in everyday lives. It is important that all practitioners, professionals, and policymakers are aware of this presence and the impact it has on different members of society. One way to gather this information...

Alcohol/Drug/Mental Health Information Professionals Conference, April, Washington DC

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Join Us! April 21-24, 2020 SALIS (Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists) and AMHL (the Association of Mental Health Librarians) invite you to spend 3 wonderful days in the nation’s capital meeting with & learning from...

9th European Alcohol Policy Conference

18 November 2020

Oslo

Norway

The 9th European Alcohol Policy Conference, will be held in Oslo, 18 – 19 November 2020. This is the 9th in a series of very successful European Alcohol Policy Conferences (Warsaw 2004, Helsinki 2006, Barcelona 2008, Brussels 2010, Stockholm 2012, Brussels 2014 and Ljubljana 2016 and Edinburgh 2018).

Alcohol, Pregnancy and Infant Health – A Shared Responsibility

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"Of all the lifestyle choices we make in conjunction with pregnancy, none are of greater importance to the child’s future health and development than the ones we make in relation to alcohol." Alcohol, pregnancy and infant health – a shared...

How Does Parental Supply of Alcohol Affect Risk of Alcohol‐Related Harms in Early Adulthood?

Scientific article

There is evidence to suggest that adolescents who receive alcohol from their parents are at higher risk of developing harmful drinking patterns later on in life. Despite the concerning link, the knowledge around this subject remains unclear...