John Holmes

Jun 5, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jennifer Boyd |John Holmes |Naomi Gibbs |Charlotte Buckley

1 INTRODUCTION Alcohol consumption is a leading cause of death, disease and disability globally [1, 2]. Targeted price-based interventions, for instance, minimum unit pricing (MUP), can reduce alcohol consumption, and as a result alcohol-related morbidity and mortality [3-6]. MUP sets a legal ‘floor price’ below which retailers cannot sell a particular volume of pure alcohol to consumers [3].

Nov 13, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | John Holmes |Colin Angus

The new Canadian drinking guidelines offer important steps forward in considering the extent of life lost to alcohol and recognizing that risks from alcohol increase continuously with rising consumption. However, the continued reliance upon questionable evidence to underpin decisions on the acceptability of alcohol-related risks needs addressing by future studies.