This paper reflects on the relationship between harm reduction, demand reduction, and
supply reduction (collectively, harm minimisation) in relation to the individual, socio …

BACKGROUND: Recent debates on 'binge drinking'in the UK have represented the activities
of young drinkers in urban areas as a particular source of concern, as constituting a threat to …

The concept of harm reduction emerged from the drug field in the 1980s in response to the
urgent need to reduce the risk and spread of blood-borne viruses in people who continued …

Against the backdrop of a long-standing British 'binge and brawl'pattern of alcohol-based
weekend leisure and concomitant recurrent anxieties in the media surrounding youth and …

Alcohol consumption is frequently described as a contemporary, worsening and peculiarly
British social problem that requires radical remedial regulation. Informed by historical …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of recent changes in young
people's consumption of alcohol in Britain before then charting emerging academic …

Background The UK Government's harm reduction strategy (Department of Health et al.,
2007) has highlighted the need for promoting sensible drinking in the light of increasing …

Aims: To explore the trend in the UK to consume alcohol at home rather than at licensed
premises. Methods: A Medline search entering the terms 'home drinking','alcohol'and …

This article contrasts two understandings of intoxication. The first, found in public health
discourse, constructs intoxication as a harm produced by risky alcohol consumption and …

In March 2004, two important documents on alcohol policy were published by the British
government. One is an Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy for England (UK Cabinet Office …