SARG's @damonm1989.bsky.social speaks on the latest @ias.org.uk podcast about how reducing spending on tobacco, gambling, confectionery and off-trade alcohol can benefit the UK economy by reallocating expenditure to other sectors. Read more about the study on the SARG website: tinyurl.com/5czdfp9p

Last week @addiction-ssa.org released the full video of their expert alcohol policy roundtable, chaired by SARG Director @jholmessheff.bsky.social. The discussion covered a wide range of topics and is essential viewing for anyone interested in alcohol policy. #PublicHealth #AlcoholPolicy

📢 New on the SARG Blog: PhD student Calum Lewis uses the 'Five Dimensions of Access' framework to break down the factors driving youth vaping, and explores how they could help design and evaluate policies. Read the full post: sarg-sheffield.ac.uk/blog/how-the... #TobaccoControl #PublicHealth

The UK hasn't had a national alcohol strategy since 2012. Today @addiction-ssa.org has released a full roundtable discussion recorded in February in which SARG Director @jholmessheff.bsky.social joined seven other experts to discuss alcohol harm and what an effective strategy would look like.

Keep your eyes open for a roundtable I recorded with @addiction-ssa.org Society for the Study of Addiction and leading UK experts on what the UK needs from a new alcohol strategy. The full discussion will be published later this week and you can see a preview here

We're looking for people who work in alcohol treatment and recovery services to contribute to a new SARG study investigating advice given about alcohol-free drinks. Find out more about the @mhrincubator.bsky.social funded study, how it links with our wider research, and how you can get involved 👇

New research co-authored by SARG's @voodooeconomics.bsky.social and @drduncgillespie.bsky.social shows that while no/lo availability tripled during the study period, access was skewed towards more affluent and rural areas. Read the full paper in @addictionjournal.bsky.social 👇 #PublicHealth

We're looking for people who work in alcohol treatment or recovery services to complete a survey about what advice is given to service users about alcohol-free drinks: sarg-sheffield.ac.uk/survey Please share to help us reach as many people as possible! #AlcoholRecovery #MentalHealth

Great to read this from the @lhgp.bsky.social team! And a shout out to SARG researchers @charlierosehead.bsky.social and Esther Chanakira for their excellent contributions to the Conference 🙌 #PreventionResearch2026 #PublicHealth

SARG's Ellen McGrane recently spoke with @afsguk.bsky.social about her research into gambling advertising during live sports. The interview explores the whistle-to-whistle ban, self-regulation, and the challenges of data collection and natural experiments in gambling research. #AddictionResearch

The latest paper to be published from our project 'Reforming alcohol taxes in a cost-of-living crisis' was led by @drsarahejackson.bsky.social with @jamiebrown.bsky.social @jholmessheff.bsky.social & @victimofmaths.bsky.social. Find out more about the project here: bit.ly/3OGifN3 #PublicHealth

Read the latest newsletter from our STAR Project which is all about incorporating young people's voices into local tobacco and vape policy making: bit.ly/3N2jHc0 Includes insights from our work with young people, info on stakeholder workshops & links to related research and reports #PublicHealth

Are you attending the Prevention Research Conference next week? Look out for SARG researchers @charlierosehead.bsky.social and Esther Chanakira who will be presenting advanced modelling work from the @lhgp.bsky.social @phiuk.bsky.social programme. Read more on the SARG website 👇 #PublicHealth

📢New SARG paper! Led by Esther Moore this study assessed the association between gambling frequency and risk of harm before applying the findings to a hypothetical policy model designed to illustrate how reducing gambling frequency could lower the risk of harm at a population level.

At our SARG monthly meeting, we take a deeper dive into work going on across the team. Today @damonm1989.bsky.social presented the methodology and data behind his recent work showing that reducing spending on harmful products could provide a significant boost to the UK economy. #PublicHealth

We had a great meeting between our STAR Project research team and local authority partners yesterday. If you'd like to stay up to date with project progress sign up for our email newsletter below - the next issue will be landing in inboxes soon! #PublicHealth #YouthVoice

Great to see SARG Research Associate @ppermanhowe.bsky.social out and about talking about her forthcoming research into mid-strength alcohol drinks! You can find more about her plans here 👇 #AlcoholResearch #AlcoholPolicy #PublicHealth

New @sarg-scharr.bsky.social study busts a big alcohol industry myth. Claims that reducing alcohol consumption “hurts the economy” ignore a key fact: people don’t burn the money they don’t spend on alcohol - they spend it elsewhere. Using UK... 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New SARG research published in @addictionjournal.bsky.social this week led by @damonm1989.bsky.social has found that public health policies which reduce spending on harmful products can actually provide a significant boost to UK jobs and the wider economy. #PublicHealth #HealthEconomics #UKEconomy

What should a UK vaping policy model look like? In this new SARG blog post Professor Hazel Squires shares findings from the SPIRE project which aimed to identify the requirements for a UK vaping policy model, map out existing data, and identify what additional data are needed. #PublicHealth

Blog from our intern, Sachin, who worked on our project last summer. We are engaging Sheffield residents on corporate influence and the commercial determinants of health. Read below 👇 sphr.nihr.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

SARG Director @jholmessheff.bsky.social spoke to @thegrocer.bsky.social about the need to formulate a public health response to the rise of alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks 👇 #PublicHealth #AlcoholPolicy #NoLo

🎉 We are delighted to announce that SARG’s @ppermanhowe.bsky.social has secured an NIHR Career Development Award to investigate the public health impact of mid-strength drinks. Read our news story to find out what her 12-month project will involve 👇 @fohsheffield.bsky.social @nihrsphr.bsky.social

Tune into BBC Radio 4 right now to hear @jholmessheff.bsky.social speaking about alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks on The Food Programme www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The latest paper from our No/Lo Project explores how public health should respond to the growing market for alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks.

Lots of new SARG papers have been published in the last few weeks - this one, led by @jholmessheff.bsky.social, looks at the public health impacts of increasing the minimum unit price for alcohol in Scotland. #PublicHealth #AlcoholPolicy

How did the #AutumnBudget2025 impact alcohol, tobacco, vaping and gambling? In this new blog post SARG experts @victimofmaths.bsky.social, @drduncgillespie.bsky.social and Ellen McGrane analyse the key policy decisions and their potential impacts on public health sarg-sheffield.ac.uk/blog/autumn-...

***New job advert** Research Associate in Public Health and Labour Economic Modelling at the University of Sheffield on policies involving interventions affecting both health and work outcomes and the interactions between them. It is a brilliant team jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

This new paper synthesises explanations for why gambling harm is unequal across communities. Led by Katie Powell and with SARG's @soc-researcher.bsky.social, @abi-stevely.bsky.social and @zoelclarke.bsky.social. #GamblingHarm #AddictionResearch #PublicHealth

📢 New on the SARG Blog! Ellen McGrane discusses an @nihr-pruaddictions.bsky.social project exploring how to integrate alcohol dependence into policy modelling. The team worked with policymakers and people with lived experience to develop a roadmap for more equitable models. #AlcoholPolicy

OHID have just updated their Fingertips/Local Alcohol Profiles data with 2024 alcohol mortality figures. fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/loca... Good to see things heading in a positive direction for a change. More details in my thread from a couple of months ago: bsky.app/profile/vict...

✨ SARG Internship opportunity ✨ We're currently looking for a part-time Quantitative Research Intern to undertake a three-month research project mapping the type of advice that alcohol treatment and recovery services give to clients on the use of alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks. Find out more 👇

We've got a new paper out in @addictionjournal.bsky.social led by @drsarahejackson.bsky.social looking at trends in cost as a motivating factor for people looking to reduce their alcohol consumption. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A few thoughts on alcohol duty ahead of the budget (and an excuse to update some old graphs). These two show the important of accounting for inflation - in cash terms alcohol duty rates are higher than ever before, but in real terms they are at historically low levels.

SARG Director @jholmessheff.bsky.social was part of an expert panel that supported the development of 'A Healthier Future: A long-term vision to tackle alcohol harm in the UK', a significant new report published by the Institute of Alcohol Studies @ias.org.uk this week. @fohsheffield.bsky.social

Our new paper discusses the challenge of how clinicians and other treatment providers should respond to the use of alcohol-free and low-alcohol (no/lo) products by patients with, or at risk of developing, severe alcohol-related health problems including AUD and ARLD. #PublicHealth #AlcoholHarm

The latest publication from our evaluation of the QUIT hospital-based tobacco dependence treatment service is now available. It investigates patient flows from hospital to community stop smoking services and subsequent quitting outcomes. Find out more about this work at quit.sites.sheffield.ac.uk

Huge thanks to everyone who joined our symposium on alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks at the @addiction-ssa.org Annual Conference last week! 📸 @ppermanhowe.bsky.social @abi-stevely.bsky.social Nathan Critchlow and Inge Kersbergen. Find out more about our No/Lo Project: sarg-sheffield.ac.uk/no-lo

More conference activity for SARG next week as @charlierosehead.bsky.social and Esther Chanakira head to Helsinki to present work from the @lhgp.bsky.social research programme at the European Public Health Conference #EPH2025 #PublicHealth

Great to see findings from our @nihr.bsky.social funded No/Lo Project in this @theguardian.com article about no/lo drink pricing, along with comments from project lead @jholmessheff.bsky.social Find out more about the project and download the referenced report here: sarg-sheffield.ac.uk/no-lo

SARG researchers @abi-stevely.bsky.social @ppermanhowe.bsky.social and @mervemolla.bsky.social are heading to the @addiction-ssa.org Annual Conference to present some of our latest research into alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks. Find out more on the SARG website 👇 #publichealth #nolo

This is a hugely important editorial that sets out how UK Government proposals to reform alcohol licensing will undermine the entire purpose of the licensing system. It will explicitly move the focus from protecting public health and social order to promoting economic goals and business priorities.

Great to hear from @ambercopeland.bsky.social today about her new @wellcometrust.bsky.social fellowship! Her work focuses on modelling how contextual factors influence alcohol consumption. Find out more on the SARG website: sarg-sheffield.ac.uk/projects/a-n... #AddictionResearch #PublicHealth

Alcoholic drinks, along with fruit and fish, are the only food and drink category to have got cheaper, in real terms, since the start of the cost-of-living crisis. Beer has got slightly more expensive in real terms since the end of 2022, but wine and spirits remain at late 2022 prices.

New data shows that the rate of alcohol-specific deaths in England & Wales *fell* in 2024 by 7.8%, but remain well above pre-pandemic levels. This is the first fall since 2018, and is certainly good news, but the no. of people who sadly died from these causes in 2024 is still 1/3 higher than 2019

I spoke to @samuelacuff.bsky.social and @noahemery.bsky.social on their Addiction Psychologist podcast about the evidence on minimum unit pricing for alcohol. You can listen below: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

The latest paper from our @nihr.bsky.social funded No/Lo Project finds that around a third of people use alcohol-free or low-alcohol drinks in attempts to cut down on drinking alcohol, but no clear evidence that they increase the success of these attempts. #AlcoholResearch #NoLo #AlcoholPolicy

📢 New paper published in @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social Using electronic point-of-sales (EPOS) data, this study assesses purchase price of factory-made cigarettes and roll-your-own tobacco across neighbourhood deprivation and urban/rural status in Britain. #TobaccoResearch #PublicHealth

Here's more on the key findings from our report published earlier this week which uses the most recent available post-pandemic data to estimate the health and financial toll of alcohol consumption in Northern Ireland. #AlcoholPolicy #PublicHealth

New SARG report published today - find out more in @victimofmaths.bsky.social thread 👇