Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems

SHAAP strives to provide empirical, accurate and useful information on alcohol and its effects on health and wellbeing.

Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) is a partnership of the Medical Royal Colleges and the Faculty of Public Health in Scotland and is based at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE).

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Conversations about Alcohol is a collaborative project between the Royal College of General Practitioners Scotland and SHAAP.

In this episode, podcast host and GP Dr Rachel Phillips is joined by Maree Todd MSP, Scottish Government Minister for Drugs and Alcohol Policy and Sport.

This is a powerful listen, offering thoughtful discussion and covering several important topics surrounding alcohol harm. Maree outlines her work to tackle the harms caused by alcohol and drugs in Scotland and reflects on her family’s experiences of problem alcohol use and offers hopeful stories of her mum and dad’s recoveries. We are grateful to Maree for sharing these personal stories with us and for her ongoing work to tackle drug and alcohol harms in her ministerial role.

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Using the best available evidence, SHAAP provides the authoritative clinical voice on how policy makers and clinicians can reduce alcohol-related harms in Scotland.

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