Alcohol Awareness Week: Alcohol & Cancer

Alcohol Guidance

Drinking alcohol is a risk factor contributing to seven types of cancer. The more alcohol you drink, the greater the risk.

Alcohol Awareness Week: Alcohol & Mental Health

Alcohol Guidance

The relationship between alcohol and mental health is complex.

Eyes Wide Open: The Cost Of Alcohol

Alcohol Guidance

Alcohol Change UK wants to see a Britain with alcohol but without serious alcohol harm. This vision of a healthier, happier country is within our grasp if we embrace some changes.

Sober Spring: What Next?

Alcohol Guidance

Happy week eleven Sober Springers! Whilst you might have noticed some major changes to your physical and mental health - have you noticed any changes in your confidence levels?

Drinking & Mental Health: Does It Really Help?

Mental Health / Alcohol Guidance

In this blog, pharmacist Andy Boysan discusses the effect of alcohol on our mental health, including its association with relieving stress and its impact on anxiety and depression.

Top Tips To Stay On Track With Your Sober Spring Goals

Alcohol Guidance

We’ve just started a brand-new year and, of course, one of the most common new year’s resolutions is to either cut back on alcohol or quit drinking completely, with Dry January a popular (not to me

Sober Spring: Supporting Sober Friends

Alcohol Guidance

It may just be night off, a month detox or a more permanent path of sobriety, but no matter the reason it deserves to be respected.

How Does My Drinking Add Up?

Alcohol Guidance

Self-reported alcohol consumption data shows that 24% of adults in Scotland in 2019 exceeded the low-risk weekly drinking guideline for both men and women.

Sober Spring: Alcohol & Mental Health

Alcohol Guidance

In this blog, award-winning nurse and mental health and alcohol expert, Mark Holmes, sets out some of the ways in which an alcohol-free challenge like Sober Spring can have a positive impa

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