Find the reports of all the 'Occasionals' lectures that SHAAP/SARN have run from 2013 - 2018 in our newly published booklet.

On 26th October at RCPE, SHAAP will launch its new report, ‘Dying for a drink’, commissioned by the Scottish Government, that discusses alcohol deaths in Scotland and draws on interviews with those affected to highlight the personal tragedies that this continues to cause. The new report also makes recommendations for actions to reduce this in future.

SHAAP’s new report also calls for more ‘professional optimism’, to recognise that people can recover from alcohol problems and to support that process.

Read SHAAP's response to the Scottish Government's consultation on its draft alcohol and drug strategy in October 2018

Netherlands campaigner calls for new thinking about how to support recovering alcoholics through the long term in the run-up to 8th European Alcohol Policy Conference in Edinburgh in November. Read the Scotsman article

SHAAP invites you to the launch of a new report delivered to the Scottish Government on causes of, and contributory factors to alcohol-related deaths in Scotland. It will take place on Friday 26th October at RCP Edinburgh; click here for more info and registration.

SHAAP/SARN's free lunchtime seminars 2018/19 on the theme of 'Alcohol and Recovery' are now open for booking. Register here

Dr Eric Carlin, Director of SHAAP, says in an article in The Scotsman that price alone is not enough to tackle the harms caused by alcohol at population level. Government regulation to limit the marketing and availability of alcohol is necessary to reduce these harms and build on legislation such as Minimum Unit Pricing introduced in Scotland earlier this year.

Watch the video and read the article in The Scotsman about how an 'Enlightenment' approach could help solve Scotland's alcohol problem, to be considered at the 8th European Alcohol Policy Conference held 20-21 November at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

Read SHAAP Steering Group Member Harpreet Kohli's letter re MUP in Scotland published in the National Medical Journal of India.

Dr Peter Rice, Chair of SHAAP Steering Group and former consultant psychiatrist with NHS Tayside, explains the long term implications of excessive drinking in the 4th Scotsman article ahead of the 8th European Alcohol Policy Conference in Edinburgh in November.