Factsheets & booklets
Booklet: A woman's guide to alcohol
July 1998
This booklet aims to enable women to make informed choices about alcohol. SUMMER SALE: Buy this booklet for only £1.00
£ 2.75
Booklet: Concerned about someone's drinking
October 1995
Are you worried that somebody close to you drinks too much? SUMMER SALE: Buy this booklet for only £1.00!
£ 2.75
Booklet: Dangerous cocktails: your mental health medication and alcohol - what are the facts?
July 1998
This booklet is for people who are taking medication for mental health problems including anxiety, panic attacks, depression, psychosis and depression, and for carers and professionals supporting them. SUMMER SALE: Buy this booklet for only £1.00!
£ 2.75
Booklet: Enough bottle? Can you handle booze? A guide for teenagers
July 1998
Young people come into contact with alcohol, and can face great pressure from their friends to drink. SUMMER SALE: Buy this booklet for only £1.00!
£ 2.75
Booklet: I don't mind if I do...alcohol and older people: safer drinking for the over 60s
November 2004
Alcohol can affect people differently as they grow older and can sometimes lead to difficulties. SUMMER SALE: Buy this booklet for only £1.00!
£ 2.75
Booklet: Putting the children first: helping families to deal with the effects of a parent's heavy drinking on family life
October 2006
A booklet for parents and families who are worried about the effect that drinking has on family life. SUMMER SALE: Buy this booklet for only £1.00!
£ 2.75
Factsheet: Advertising alcohol
January 2004
The advertising of alcohol is an important and contentious issue which provokes much debate between the drinks industry on one side and organisations with public health concerns on the other.
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Factsheet: Alcohol and crime
September 2004
Looks at the prevalence of alcohol-related crime and the nature of the relationship between excess drinking and crime - particularly violent crime.
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Factsheet: Alcohol and mental health
September 2002
Summarises research on the nature and scale of the problem of co-existent mental health and alcohol problems from the alcohol perspective.
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Factsheet: Drinking patterns
January 2009
A new Alcohol Concern factsheet that looks at the history of the UK's drinking culture and outlines some of the consequences of heavy and inappropriate drinking.
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Factsheet: Grasping the nettle: alcohol and domestic violence
June 2010
A completely updated overview of the research on the association between alcohol and domestic violence and a clear outline of the implications for policy and practice. Written by Dr Sarah Galvani from the University of Bedfordshire.
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Factsheet: Men and alcohol
July 2008
This factsheet covers various aspects of men's drinking including drinking habits, risk factors and social and health effects of excess drinking.
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Factsheet: Mortality and alcohol
June 2003
This factsheet looks at figures for alcohol-related deaths and patterns of mortality across sexes and different ages.
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Factsheet: Putting brief interventions into practice
June 2006
Despite the evidence of the effectiveness of brief interventions, implementation of brief intervention programmes in primary care remains the exception rather than the rule.
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Factsheet: Tackling alcohol misuse in prison: a window of opportunity or a lost opportunity
March 2007
This factsheet looks at the scale of alcohol misuse among prisoners, provides evidence of the effectiveness of interventions and outlines the current strategy for addressing alcohol problems in the prison population.
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Factsheet: Women and alcohol - a cause for concern?
December 2008
This factsheet examines how much women are drinking, recent trends in women's drinking and focuses on the key issues relating to women's drinking.
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Factsheet: Young people and alcohol
September 2009
This factsheet looks at the existing evidence on young people's drinking, showing the prevalence of drinking and highlighting alcohol-related problems that are specific to young people.
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