In the current edition we feature a detailed analysis of International research concerning alcohol consumption during pregnancy and breast feeding by Creina S. Stockley, AIM Council member.

Reports by The Joseph Rowntree Foundation ‘Influences on how children and young people learn about and behave towards alcohol’ and by the AERC ‘Young people, alcohol and the news: preliminary findings’ are reviewed.

We report on how obesity is set to overtake excessive alcohol consumption as prime cause of liver cirrhosis in UK.and Professor R Curtis Ellison summarises recent research on Alcohol and folate intake and breast cancer risk and Alcohol consumption, hypertension, and total mortality among women.