Home Office booze ads show dark side of getting wrecked
A TV ad featuring a young man ruining his appearance before going out drinking leads the Home Office's new £4m alcohol abuse campaign. By Mark Sweney
The party’s over
Students tend to be portrayed in the media as hard-drinking hedonists. But that's simply no longer the case. Jessica Shepherd finds out why sober is becoming cool
Battle of the bulge targets drink labels
Alcoholic drinks should display the number of calories contained in them to help tackle the growing obesity crisis, say council leaders
Drink-fuelled antics? Not our fault, say students
College leaders have attacked firms organising pub crawls. But the companies say it is student unions themselves that foster the worst excess
Over 60 and heading for rehab
It is not just the young who are binge drinking. Increasing numbers of older people are becoming alcoholic. And as Kate Hilpern reports, it is not always easy for them to get the help they need
60,000 doctors to be trained to spot patients’ alcohol problems
Identification and treatment of alcohol misuse to be part of the compulsory curriculum for undergraduate doctors
One drink and I’m dead
Experience: It was a good thing that I was already on my back in a hospital bed when the doctor told me I could never drink again, or her words would have knocked me flat
Smaller wine bottles could cut alcohol consumption, says journal
Smaller wine bottles could cut alcohol consumption, says journal
At least this Christmas we’ll know officially how drunk we mustn’t be
AL Kennedy: With boozier booze and bigger glasses, the odds are increasingly stacked against women surviving the season health intact
You booze, you lose
Think you can make up for a drinking binge with a workout? Think again, says Andy Darling. Even a little alcohol impairs your athletic performance
Last orders
Do you drink too much? Do you? Do I? Does your husband, your girlfriend, your sister, your father? Do you?
Womb to tomb replaces cradle to grave as focus for health service
· Campaigns to tackle obesity and alcoholism · Deprived areas targeted in drive for healthy lifestyles
Drinking one too many can damage your liver
It used to be associated with older heavy drinkers but serious liver disease is rising fast in young people. All it takes is a few pints of lager and glasses of wine a week. Lucy Atkins reports.
‘Things are good now’
Children are often forgotten casualties of their parents' drug addiction. But Addaction, the charity born from a Guardian article 40 years ago this week, is helping families rebuild their lives. In the second of two special reports David Ward tells of one mother's salvation.