Dry January is Alcohol Concern's flagship campaign. The campaign is a
chance to ditch the hangover, reduce the waistline, and save money by giving up
alcohol for 31 days.
Instead
of talking about what fun (or not) you might have drinking, this sparks off
lots of different conversations about the benefits of having a break from
drinking. These are the sort of conversations that Alcohol Concern wants to
have with people.
In January 2014 according to Alcohol Concern, over 17,000 Britons
stopped drinking for that month. While there is controversy as to the efficacy
and benefits of the practice, a 2014 survey by the University of Sussex found
that six months following January 2014, out of 900 surveyed participants in the
custom, 72% had "kept harmful drinking episodes down" and 4% were
still not drinking.
For more about Dry January, please visit the Alcohol Concern website: https://www.alcoholconcern.org.uk
RELATED HEALTH LIBRARY RESOURCES
For anyone studying the importance of alcohol and its effects, the
Health Library offers numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists
below you’ll find our most popular items, information on materials recently
added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items simply
go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.
BOOKS
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Alcohol
and health : a guide for health-care professionals / by Marsha Y. Morgan
and E. Bruce Ritson, 2010, 5th edition, London: Medical Council on
Alcohol.
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Drink;
a cultural history of alcohol / by
Iain Gately, 2009, New York: Gotham Books.
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Fetal
alcohol spectrum disorder: a guide for healthcare professionals / by The British
Medical Association. Board of Science, 2007, London: BMA.
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Identification
and treatment of alcohol dependency / by Colin R. Martin, 2008, Keswick,
Cumbria: M&K Update
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Sobering
Tales: narratives of alcoholism and recovery / by Edmund B
O'Reilly, 1997!, Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
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ABC of Alcohol / by Alex
Paton and Robin Touquet, 2005, 4th edition, Malden, Mass.: Blackwell
Publishing. E-book also available.
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Young
people and alcohol: impact, policy, prevention, treatment, by John B
Saunders; Joseph Rey, 2011, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell
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Alcohol
abuse and liver disease, by James Neuberger; Andrea F DiMartini, 2015,
Chichester : John Wiley & Sons Inc. Available as a e-book.
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The
treatment of drinking problems : a guide for the helping professions, by E.
Jane Marshall Keith Humphreys; David M Ball, 2010, 5th edition, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. Also available as a e-book.
JOURNALS
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Alcohol : New York : ANKHO International Inc. /
Elsevier Science
United States. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1995 onwards, and as a NHS ejournal 2003 onwards]
United States. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1995 onwards, and as a NHS ejournal 2003 onwards]
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current
reviews : Bethesda, Maryland
: National Institutes of Health, National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism [Available as a Keele &
NHS ejournal 2012 onwards]
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Alcohol and alcoholism : Oxford ; New York :
Pergamon Press [Available as a
Keele ejournal 1963 onwards, and as a NHS ejournal 1996 onwards]
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alcohol abuse : Philadelphia : Taylor & Francis [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 1993
onwards with 18 month embargo]
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: Bethesda, Maryland : National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism [Available as
a Keele & NHS ejournal 1999 - 2011]
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Drug and alcohol review : London :
Wiley-Blackwell. [Available in print
2004 - 2010. Also available as a Keele ejournal 1997 onwards, and as a NHS
ejournal 1998 onwards with 1 year embargo]
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Addiction : Abingdon, England : Blackwell
Publishing [Available in print
1994 - 2006. Also available as a Keele ejournal 1993 onwards, and as a NHS
ejournal 1993 onwards with 1 year embargo]
Access more journals via our Journals
webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/
ARTICLES
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Delker, Erin; Brown,
Qiana and Hasin, Deborah S. ‘Alcohol Consumption in Demographic Subpopulations
An Epidemiologic Overview’, Alcohol
Research: Current Reviews, 2016. Vol. 38 (1), p. 7-16. [Available via Keele
& NHS ejournals]
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Glass, J.E.; Grant,
J.D.; Yoon, H.Y. and Bucholz, K.K. ‘Alcohol problem recognition and help
seeking in adolescents and young adults at varying genetic and environmental
risk’, Drug and Alcohol Dependence,
2015. Vol. 153, pp. 250-258. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
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Mostofsky, Elizabeth et
al. ‘Key Findings on Alcohol Consumption and a variety of Health Outcomes from
the Nurses' Health Study’, American
Journal of Public Health, 2016. Vol. 106 (9), pp. 1586-1592. [Available via
Keele & NHS ejournals]
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Noone, Peter. ‘Alcohol’,
Occupational medicine, 2010. Vol. 60
(1), pp 83. [Available in print,
and via Keele & NHS ejournals]
PAITENT INFORMATION / PAITENT ADVICE
Alcohol – NHS Evidence search with
‘Information for the Public’ filter https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/Search?om=[{%22ety%22:[%22Information%20for%20the%20Public%22]}]&q=alcohol
Alcoholism – NHS Evidence search with
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