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• Posted on 12 January 2016 by Elizabeth Fuller, Research Director

  Will we follow new drinking guidelines?

  

  Elizabeth Fuller asks whether the public will follow the Chief Medical Officer's new alcohol guidelines. 

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  Tags: binge drinking, drinking, Health Survey for England, alcohol, health, lifestyles

• Posted on 30 June 2011

  No quick fixes to helping society’s most vulnerable young people

  We’ve all read the headlines recently about youth gang violence and the worrying news about teenage drinking. But what’s the truth behind these headlines? Who are these young people and what are their circumstances? Matt Barnes sheds some light with our latest research for the Department for Education.    

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  Tags: anti-social behaviour, binge drinking, children and young people, crime and justice, health and lifestyle