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The AERC Seeks 5 Board MembersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We are currently seeking 5 board members who should have an interest in alcohol research, treatment and educational services. All candidates must be an active participant in the affairs of the Council, be able to act as an ambassador for the Council, have a willingness to contribute towards strategic development and have the ability to make a constructive contribution in regard to assessing grant applications and funding priorities. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - November 20, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

AERC and Comic Relief Call for Proposals - Gender differences in alcohol consumption and harm: Development of prevention strategiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In partnership with Comic Relief, the Alcohol Education and Research Council invite submissions of research proposals to address gender differences in drinking patterns, how these may have changed over time, why such a change has occurred and what strategies stand a chance of protecting young men and young women from the harmful consequences of alcohol misuse. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - November 17, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

AERC and Drinkaware Call for Proposals - “National Drinking Cultures”Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If Drinkaware and others want to change the national drinking culture for the better, it is vital that there is an understanding of the culture (or cultures) that currently exist. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - November 4, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Young people, alcohol and the news: preliminary findingsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
New AERC Alcohol Insight and Final Report reveals marked patterns in the way alcohol is represented in the news, as well as the degree of scepticism young people have towards news reporting of these issues. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - October 31, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Westminster Food and Nutrition Forum Keynote Seminar: Alcohol – The Next Steps for PolicyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
With the Chief Medical Officer and the Scottish Government laying out plans for a revised approach to alcohol policy, and with the Home Office beginning a consultation on changing the law regarding alcohol sales, this timely seminar will look at the effectiveness of alcohol strategies and media campaigns in England and Wales in combating alcohol misuse, and whether it is time to reconsider minimum pricing and constraints on alcohol availability. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - October 28, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

A One-Day Master-class/Seminar:Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Psychological Evidence-Based Approaches to Addiction: Provided by Robin Davidson, John B Davies and Richard Velleman. To be held in London (Russell Hotel, Russell Square, WC1B 5BE), on Monday, 23rd November 2009. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - October 28, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Call for ProposalsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Identifying Promising Approaches to be included in Community Interventions. There is increasing evidence that multi-component programmes (MCPs) can be an effective way of impacting on local drinking trends and alcohol-related harms. MCPs have consisted of different groups of projects, targeting different outcomes and there is a need to identify which projects might be most suited and most effective within an MCP. The Alcohol Education & Research Council in collaboration with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation wish to fund a study to identify the most promising projects for inclusion in such a programme. (Source: AERC: The Alco...
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - October 28, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

The Orientation and Integration of Local and National Alcohol Policy in England and WalesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
New Alcohol Insight and Final Report - An analysis of the raft of powers the current Labour Government has made available to local practitioners to enable greater control and enforcement over the sale and consumption of alcohol and associated problematic behaviours and harms. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - October 28, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Alcohol Consumption, Mortality and MorbidityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
New AERC funded research - Key findings from Professor Martin Plant, Alcohol Health and Research Unit, Faculty of Health and Sciences, University of the West of England and Alcohol Concern, the national agency on alcohol misuse. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - October 28, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Script representation of alcohol-related aggression in underage drinkersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
New AERC Alcohol Insight and Final Report examines the extent to which these alcohol or aggression scripts are known and understood by young people approaching legal drinking age, and how they are related to broader beliefs, attitudes and values concerning alcohol use and aggression. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - October 28, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Call for ProposalsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Identifying Promising Approaches to be included in Community Interventions. There is increasing evidence that multi-component programmes (MCPs) can be an effective way of impacting on local drinking trends and alcohol-related harms. MCPs have consisted of different groups of projects, targeting different outcomes and there is a need to identify which projects might be most suited and most effective within an MCP. The Alcohol Education & Research Council in collaboration with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation wish to fund a study to identify the most promising projects for inclusion in such a programme. (Source: AERC: The Alco...
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - September 17, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

A One-Day Master-class/Seminar:Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Psychological Evidence-Based Approaches to Addiction: Provided by Robin Davidson, John B Davies and Richard Velleman. To be held in London (Russell Hotel, Russell Square, WC1B 5BE), on Monday, 23rd November 2009. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - July 8, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Current AERC grant holder lists updated.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Lists detailing all current AERC grant holders have been added to the 'Current Grant Holders' section of the AERC website. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - May 20, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Conference Announcement.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Alcohol and the adolescent: addressing the binge society. We are being bombarded by reports in the media about young people having trouble as a result of binge drinking. We know that there is evidence of a real problem, not just a media campaign. So how should we understand this problem? How should we respond to it? This meeting aims to examine the current evidence regarding alcohol and the adolescent, and to consider our responses to the problem. Organised by the Royal Society of Medicine in association with Sections of General Practice with Primary Health Care, Psychiatry, Paediatrics and Child Health and Emergency Medi...
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - May 20, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

AERC appoints a Chief Executive.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Dave Roberts joins the AERC after ten years as Chief Executive of the Community Foundation for Merseyside, one of the most significant in a UK network of community foundations that is the largest independent funder of the voluntary sector in the UK. In that capacity, he has been responsible for developing partnerships and drawing in funds from a range of public, private and charitable sources and developing award-winning grant making processes. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - May 11, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Scheme to tackle youth alcohol abuse welcomed.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A new project to tackle alcohol misuse among young people has been welcomed by a women's charity. YWCA has called the the Alcohol Arrest Referral programme a step in the right direction. The Home Office scheme will be tested in six local authorities around the country and will target people arrested under the influence of drink or drugs, who will be referred directly to a youth worker. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - May 8, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

2008 Funding for Research and Development ProjectsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This years priorities for applications (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

New Final ReportEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Not In Front Of The Children – Child Protection And Advertising. An investigation by Alcohol Concern. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

New Alcohol InsightEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Awareness of unit content of self poured drinks by UK adults: a useful intervention tool? (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

New Alcohol Insight.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Not In Front Of The Children – Child Protection And Advertising. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

New AERC web design.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We've had a major site re-design, why not take a look? (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

AERC Alcohol Library launched.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We've integrated five major alcohol article search tools into one. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

New alcohol news item added.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Cancer Research UK have created an online Alcohol Tracker widget for iGoogle users. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

New alcohol news item - Britons among the worst drink drivers.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Motorists in Britain are among the worst offenders in Europe for drink-driving, a new study suggests. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

New alcohol news item - Health minister challenges drinks industry.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Minister, Michael McGimpsey has challenged the Drinks Industry to work with his Department and other agencies to tackle the growing problem of young people’s drinking. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

New alcohol news item - Alcoholics to get one-to-one help.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
More than 100 people in the east end of Glasgow are to be given one-to-one help to beat alcohol addiction. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

New alcohol news item - Science Group of the European Alcohol and Health Forum meets.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The first meeting of the Science Group of the European Alcohol and Health Forum was held in Brussels on June 30th. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

New alcohol news item - BMA proposes use of graphic images on labels.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Beer and wine bottles should carry graphic images of diseased livers similar to campaigns featured on cigarette boxes in an effort to curb the country's alcohol abuse, the British Medical Association (BMA) will propose this week. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

New alcohol news item - Alcohol returns to Baghdad.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Alcohol is openly for sale once more in Baghdad. All over the Iraqi capital, drink stores, which closed their doors in early 2006 when sectarian strife was raging, have slowly begun to reopen. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Pricing and promotion review.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In Safe. Sensible. Social: next steps in the national alcohol strategy, the Department of Health committed to commission an independent review of the relationship between alcohol price, promotion and harm. This Phase 1 report is a comprehensive summary of international evidence. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

A licence for disorder and dangerous drinking.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In the 2003 Licensing Act, the Government severed the link between pubs and the criminal justice system by transferring licensing powers from magistrates to councils, and now wonders why public houses do not keep better order. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Chronic alcohol consumption discovered in wild mammals: boozing is older than mankind.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A wild mammal closely resembling the earliest primates is drinking palm beer on a daily basis since maybe millions of years. Nevertheless, this Malaysian treeshrew is never drunk. This suggests a beneficial effect, and sheds a whole new light on the evolution of human alcoholism. In the renowned scientific journal PNAS an international team led by German biologists Frank Wiens and Annette Zitzmann from the University of Bayreuth explains the details of the first recorded chronic alcohol intake in the wild. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Identifying cost-effective interventions to reduce the burden of harm associated with alcohol misuse in AustraliaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study is a PDF document which provides a comprehensive analysis of the cost- effectiveness of interventions to reduce the burden of harm associated with alcohol misuse in Australia. The key findings suggest that all the prevention interventions modelled are more cost-effective in reducing alcohol-related harm than those that treat alcohol dependence. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Alcohol trade is failing to safeguard the public say Alcohol ConcernEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Alcohol Concern has just published a new report into the limitations of the alcohol regulatory regime. In the report Alcohol Concern says that the long standing agreement between the government and the alcohol trade associations is failing to safeguard the public. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Pubs in troubleEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Pubs are in trouble for cheap drinks. But ever more is being sunk at home. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Alcohol problems in primary care, no longer on UK agendaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Findings Effectiveness Bank Bulletin: Universal screening for alcohol problems in primary care fails in Denmark and is no longer on UK agenda. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

AERC Studentship grant holders list updatedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Latest AERC Studentship grant holders have been added to the site. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Latest Annual Report availableEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The AERC Annual Report for the years 2007/2008 is now available as a PDF. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Scottish ministers "unfair"Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Two-thirds of Scots believe ministers are acting unfairly by pushing up the price of alcohol for everyone. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Strategies that can promote responsible service already existEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Drug and Alcohol Findings update: We already have strategies that can promote responsible service of alcohol. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Public Booze Ban backlashEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Manifesto Club is launching a campaign Against the Booze Bans and the Hyperregulation of Public Space. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Violent Partners to Face Drinking BanEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
MEN accused of assaulting their partners face being banned from drinking alcohol, under a radical plan to tackle the rising tide of domestic abuse. In an attempt to sever the link between drinking and violence in the home, police and prosecutors are set to seek alcohol consumption bail orders, which would mean accused individuals having to turn up at police stations for regular alcohol tests. Reported in The Scotsman. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Finnish study reveals retention enhancing therapistsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An exploratory study of problem drinkers in Finland has tested a practical method of identifying in advance those therapists most likely to retain clients. A PDF Report from Drug and Alcohol Findings. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

AERC Web news gets own pageEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Due to the success of the AERC web news section, the archive has now got it's own page. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Nurses help prevent future hazardous consumptionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
while caring for injured drinkers - A PDF Report from Drug and Alcohol Findings (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Links between binge drinking and dementiaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
BBC News reports that a generation of young binge drinkers are increasing their risk of developing dementia in middle age, experts have warned. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Cheap alcohol linked to early mortalityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
British Medical Journal: Lowering the price of alcohol is associated with an increase in alcohol related mortality, a study of the effects of substantial price cuts in Finland indicates. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Powerpoint resources for US addiction recovery monthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
U.S. Voices for Recovery: The following PowerPoint presentation can help to promote the National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month in your local community (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Price and PromotionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Amid social unease about Britain's harmful relationship with alcohol, the government is under pressure to adopt price controls and stricter regulation. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations

Full AERC Report about digital storytellingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Researching the effects of Digital Storytelling as a brief alcohol intervention for young people delivered in non-medical settings. (Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council)
Source: AERC: The Alcohol Education and Research Council - April 24, 2009 Category: Addiction Source Type: organizations