Sober shaming makes people feel like their personal choice is 'wrong'. It stops people making a change to their drinking.

By sober shaming others, we’re upholding society’s view that drinking alcohol is normal and not drinking is not.

Find out more: alcoholchange.org.uk/get-involved/c…

5pm Business chats with Oliver Shah aka Shazarika
5:15pm Boozy Britain w Richard Piper & School of Booze
5:35pm Comedy panel with top notch stand ups Jo Caulfield & Alistair Barrie

Thank you to Christian Wakeford MP for speaking openly about the recently released Office for National Statistics (ONS) alcohol specific death stats.

Alcohol is a complex and prevalent issue.

An alcohol strategy is needed from the government to tackle alcohol harm and end stigma in the UK.

Important investigation by the BMJ about the influence that alcohol-industry funded bodies currently have in our schools and universities. Our children and young people should be able to learn about alcohol harm free from such influence.

#BMJInvestigation Public health experts are calling for a ban on alcohol industry funded education programmes in UK universities and schools, which they say normalise drinking and downplay the long term health risks of #alcohol
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“If you give your child alcohol, they are more likely to have a problem later in life,” Alcohol Change UK CEO Richard Piper tells Tom Swarbrick as youth alcohol consumption reaches record levels.

When did you have your first drink?

Evidence shows that managing the price of alcohol is an effective way to reduce avoidable #alcoholharm .

There are many ways that #government can influence the price at which alcohol is sold. Find out more about #alcoholduty , as well as #policy solutions: alcoholchange.org.uk/policy/policy-…

What if my partner still drinks?

soberdave (Instagram @soberdave), @alcoholchangeuk Ambassador and Coach, shares his sobriety coaching advice for how to deal with unsupportive partners.

Read Dave's #SoberSpring blog here: alcoholchange.org.uk/blog/what-if-m…

Alcohol is a group 1 carcinogen, which means that there is enough evidence to show that alcohol causes #cancer along with other group 1 carcinogens like UV radiation and tobacco smoke.

Read our factsheet explaining the risks here: alcoholchange.org.uk/alcohol-facts/…

This is what happens when you fail to protect children from alcohol marketing, and a Govt that fails to see that UK alcohol marketing controls are weak. Whoever forms the new Govt must act. A vast majority of citizens want proper action on alcohol harm theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

(1/3) The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released the latest alcohol-specific death statistics, announcing that there were sadly 10,048 deaths from alcohol in 2022 in the UK – an all-time high, up 4.2% on the previous year, and 32.8% higher than when compared to 2019.

New inflation figures, no change to the fact that alcohol prices have risen more slowly than other goods during the cost-of-living crisis.

SHAAP Chair Alastair MacGilchrist comments on the Chancellor's decision to continue to freeze alcohol duty.

Freezing duty doesn't help pubs, despite what Jeremy Hunt claimed in today's Budget.

It helps supermarkets maintain much lower prices than pubs, encouraging people to drink more at home and not in pubs.

Today's budget includes a freeze on alcohol duties until February 2025, on the grounds of supporting pubs and the hospitality sector.

Here's a thread of reasons why this is daft:

Yet again a Chancellor who freezes duty (cutting it in real terms) on the basis of it helping pubs. It doesn’t. It helps supermarkets.

If you actually want to help pubs - the draught relief is literally a tax cut just for them. Why not use that?

Unbelievable the chancellor has announced yet another alcohol duty freeze when harms are at record levels & with more people dying from alcohol than ever. Like tobacco, alcohol is a group 1 carcinogen - yet it’s treated like an essential commodity by Government #cheapalcoholkills

Did you enjoy the Dry January programme? Has it been harder to keep control of your drinking since a Feb? Have you considered joining the Sober Spring programme to take your drink control to the next level?

Stephen McGowan’s article on MUP in Monday’s Scotsman was incomplete and misleading. Here’s my letter explaining why (2nd letter down, ‘The MUP Show’). His article’s title was ‘Does MUP work?’. My answer is …. yes! scotsman.com/news/opinion/l…

Alcohol Change UK is deeply disappointed with the announcement in today's Spring Budget by Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the freeze in alcohol duty. #Budget2024 (1/5)