SARG - SCHARR

Sheffield Addictions Research Group, part of the Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research (SCHARR) at the University of Sheffield.

[SARG - SCHARR @SARG_SCHARR]

We're now up and running on Bluesky and you can follow us at https://t.co/HSyfV8XO3e Hope to see you there! 👋

[SARG - SCHARR @SARG_SCHARR]

Today we've released our first Budget Briefing Note exploring the potential health and economic consequences of tobacco and alcohol tax changes announced in the Autumn Budget. We plan to publish similar briefing notes following future UK Budgets https://t.co/9jTBnp2A7r

[SARG - SCHARR @SARG_SCHARR]

New SARG research commissioned by @P_H_S_Official and published today has found that increasing the price of the cheapest tobacco products through minimum pricing could help to reduce smoking rates and improve health in Scotland https://t.co/WEYI4Cb1Qb

[Public Health Scotland @P_H_S_Official]

Modest estimates are that even a 60p minimum price would lead to 16,327 people stopping in the next ten years, plus 1,467 fewer hospital admissions, prevent 285 deaths, and add an additional 6,792 years of life to the Scottish population by 2034.

https://t.co/ubjHSAeODy

[Drug&AlcoholReview @APSAD_DAR]

Open Access - The impact of #Scotland's minimum unit pricing for #alcohol policy on people accessing services for alcohol dependence: A difference-in-difference structured interview study

https://t.co/hlnUmkdSlH

[SARG - SCHARR @SARG_SCHARR]

*New paper* published in @ijdrugpolicy looking at trends in alcohol expenditure among risky drinkers in England 2014–2023. Led by @DrSarahEJackson with @MelissaOldham @VictimOfMaths @ClaireVGarnett @VoodooEcon @JHolmesSheff @jamiebrown10 https://t.co/QtVaJeeBA5

[NIHR_PHIRST @NIHR_PHIRST]

This #Stoptober find out how Local Authorities can support people to stop smoking in our research briefing https://t.co/SwcDzVvb4D

The PHIRST Fusion team evaluated the North Yorkshire Living Well Smoke Free service, exploring service delivery key considerations #PublicHealth

[Research & Impact at Sheffield @ShefUniImpact]

ICYMI @drduncgillespie @SARG_ScHARR @sheffielduni presented evaluation findings of the QUIT programme which is providing insights to support the future development of hospital-based tobacco treatment services across the UK. The evaluation report was commissioned by @Yorkshirecancer

[SARG - SCHARR @SARG_SCHARR]

You can read more in our report "New modelling of alcohol pricing policies, alcohol consumption and harm in Scotland: An adaptation of the Sheffield Tobacco and Alcohol Policy Model" https://t.co/2345nimD80

[SARG - SCHARR @SARG_SCHARR]

Scotland has today increased the minimum price for alcohol to 65p per unit. This decision ensures the price keeps pace with inflation and was directly informed by SARG modelling that highlighted the health impacts of leaving the level at 50p in spite of recent high inflation.

[Sarah Jackson @DrSarahEJackson]

There is good evidence smoking is a socially contagious behaviour.

In our new paper, we find similar evidence for vaping.

🧵⬇️

https://t.co/uBNHnygmJW

[SARG - SCHARR @SARG_SCHARR]

Here's more on the new project exploring barriers to the use of no/lo drinks to reduce alcohol consumption among those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Led by @mervemolla and funded by @InstAlcStud
https://t.co/9rSfDR4aph

[Dr Merve Mollaahmetoglu @mervemolla]

Very pleased to have received funding from @InstAlcStud for our project on barriers to the use of no and low alcohol drinks to reduce drinking among individuals from lower SES backgrounds. Excited to work on this with a great team @Inge_Kersbergen @JHolmesSheff @MelissaOldham🥳

[SARG - SCHARR @SARG_SCHARR]

**New SARG paper** Published this week in @TheLancetPH results of a study led by Damon Morris to model the impacts of last year's alcohol duty reforms. Find out more about the paper and our project investigating the tax reforms in more depth here:
https://t.co/MZi0vSxiJm

[Colin Angus @VictimOfMaths]

We can now update this plot of age-specific trends in alcohol-specific and drug misuse deaths in Scotland with 2023 data.

All sorts of interesting things going on here. Not many of them are good though.

[NIHR_PHIRST @NIHR_PHIRST]

Professor Elizabeth Goyder, University of Sheffield presenting our evaluation of the North Yorkshire Council Living Well Smoke Free Service yesterday @SocSocMed #SSM2024

You can read more about this project on our website https://t.co/Y8n5bsiUjA

[Colin Angus @VictimOfMaths]

I'm giving a talk for Sheffield Skeptics in the Pub on the evening of the 16th September about alcohol and health. It may feature the odd graph or two.

Feel free to come along if that sounds like your kind of thing.

Details:
https://t.co/Xg5HwSdXgv

[SARG - SCHARR @SARG_SCHARR]

Find out more about the project 'Evaluating and responding to the public health impact of no and low alcohol drinks: A multi-method study of a complex intervention in a complex system' at https://t.co/4ZwTUGHlqs Funded by @NIHRresearch and in collaboration w/ @UCL_IEHC @ISMH_uos

[SARG - SCHARR @SARG_SCHARR]

**New SARG Paper** The latest paper from our 'No/Lo Project', published in @APSAD_DAR 'Characteristics of consumers of alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks in Great Britain: A cross-sectional study' @Parvati_Howe @JHolmesSheff @jamiebrown10 @Inge_Kersbergen https://t.co/Lio1Zyg1vP

[SARG - SCHARR @SARG_SCHARR]

Led by @Parvati_Howe the paper reports on a study which aimed to estimate (i) the proportions of adults in GB who consume no/lo drinks at different frequencies and in different settings; and (ii) the associations between no/lo drink consumption and individual characteristics.

[Colin Angus @VictimOfMaths]

Now with added 2023 data for Scotland and the US, here's a new version of our analysis of 'deaths of despair' in the UK, US and Canada.

Things heading in a slightly better direction in the US in 2023, although from a bad, bad place. Scotland, not so much.