Interim report on the impact of Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) among people who are alcohol dependent and accessing treatment services – briefing paper
Buykx, Penny, Perkins, Andy, Hughes, Jane, Livingston, Wulf, Johnston, Allan, McCarthy, Trevor, McLean, Alex, Wright, Alex, Little, Simon and Holmes, John (2021) Interim report on the impact of Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) among people who are alcohol dependent and accessing treatment services – briefing paper. [Report]
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Abstract
Minimum unit pricing (MUP) for alcohol was implemented in May 2018 and is currently set at £0.50 per unit (pu) of alcohol. Public Health Scotland has been tasked by the Scottish Government to evaluate the impact of MUP on a number of different outcome areas. As part of this evaluation we commissioned the University of Sheffield to look at the impact of MUP on those drinking at harmful levels. The research as a whole contains four separate work packages.* This briefing paper is based on an interim report from the first of these work packages (called ‘Work Package 1 (WP1)’ from here on) which focuses on people who are dependent on alcohol and are accessing treatment services. People who are dependent on alcohol have complex needs and may respond to MUP in ways that have consequences for their own health and wellbeing, that of those around them, and wider society. The interim report1 presents a description of collected data and early findings from WP1 about the impact of MUP on people with alcohol dependence who access treatment services. There will also be a final report on WP1 as a whole, along with the findings from the other work packages, in 2022.
| Item Type: | Report |
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| Keywords: | Minimum Unit Price, Alcohol, Price, Harmful Drinking, Scotland |
| Divisions: | Social and Life Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Hayley Dennis |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Feb 2024 13:17 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Feb 2024 13:29 |
| URI: | https://glyndwr.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/18134 |
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