✍️: New on PopNAD: 📉 THL’s 2025 survey: Only 42% of Finns now back wine sales in grocery stores. If support is dropping, why does deregulation stay in the spotlight? 🔗 Read Mikaela Lindeman & @piamakela.bsky.social's take here: nordicwelfare.org/popnad/en/ar...

Suomalaiset eivät näyttäisi kannattavan alkoholijuomien kotiinkuljetuksen mahdollistamista a-klinikkasaatio.fi/ajankohtaist...

The 50th Anniversary KBS Symposium is taking place in Glasgow, Scotland, on the 9th – 13th June 2025! Registration is open until the 9th of May - programme to be announced soon! Our website has all the information you need, included how to register: www.kbs2025scotland.org/registration...

Viinien myymistä päivittäistavarakaupoissa kannattavien osuus on pienentynyt 12 prosenttiyksikköä vuodesta 2022. thl.fi/-/vaeston-al...

Alkoholimonopolit ovat hyvä tapa ehkäistä alkoholin aiheuttamia haittoja, sanoo Maailman terveysjärjestö WHO tuoreessa raportissaan. WHO suosittaa Suomea ja Pohjoismaita säilyttämään alkoholin vähittäismyynnin yksinoikeusjärjestelmänsä. yle.fi/a/74-20141396

Olisi tästäkin näkökulmasta väestön terveyden kannalta huono ratkaisu, jos viinin juomista ruokajuomana edistettäisiin tuomalla 15% viinit ruokakauppoihin. www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...

Lämmin kiitos Päivikki ja Sakari Sohlbergin säätiölle arvokkaasta tuesta ikääntyvien alkoholinkäytön seulontamittarin kehittämiseksi (pss-saatio.fi)

Our new article in Drug & Alcohol Review: Reducing alcohol affordability through alcohol taxes, minimum unit pricing or other means seems to be an effective way to reduce socio-economic inequalities in severe alcohol-attributable harm. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We wrote a book! Everything we learned over six years of work on the decline in youth drinking in the UK, Australia, Sweden and Finland. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

Labour's Gambling Act 2005 was a “big mistake”, says @willprochaska.bsky.social. As Alastair Campbell said in his recent podcast: "One of the worst things we did as a government was liberalise the gambling industry". Links to our podcast with Will: www.ias.org.uk/podcast/gamb...

Munuais- ja maksaliitolla on mielipide alkoholin (myös viinin) arkipäiväistämisestä [the kidney and liver association has an opinion about making alcohol (including wine) a part of our daily lives]

How do 15-16-year olds get their alcohol in Finland? (ESPAD) Somebody they know is still most common but decreasing, parents slightly increasing. ’Internet’ and ’Other’ increasing the most. My daughter had had an Estonian ’booze dude’ deliverer’s number on her phone before turning 18 ☹

Where, when & with whom is cannabis used in Finland? Weekends & evenings, often in party settings in private places. Recreational use was often linked to social contexts and alcohol consumption during weekends, medical use more even across times and contexts. Karjalainen et al., w. English summary