Alcohol deaths
A 'golden age' of Scottish journalism? How alcohol fuelled and damaged newsrooms
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Scotland & Alcohol
![Annemarie Ward of FAVOR (Faces and Voices of Recovery)](/resources/images/128x89/1x/17833175.jpg)
![Annemarie Ward of FAVOR (Faces and Voices of Recovery)](/resources/images/180x180/1x/17833175.jpg)
Scotland & Alcohol
![An employee arranges bottles of sparkling wine at a supermarket in Moscow](/resources/images/128x89/1x/17834405.jpg)
![An employee arranges bottles of sparkling wine at a supermarket in Moscow](/resources/images/180x180/1x/17834405.jpg)
Scotland & Alcohol
![Monica Lennon was elected an MSP in 2016, a year after her father died](/resources/images/128x89/1x/17818571.jpg)
![Monica Lennon was elected an MSP in 2016, a year after her father died](/resources/images/180x180/1x/17818571.jpg)
SCOTLAND & ALCOHOL
![Minimum unit alcohol pricing](/resources/images/128x89/1x/15732788.jpg)
![Minimum unit alcohol pricing](/resources/images/180x180/1x/15732788.jpg)
Explained in five
![Latest figures from the National Records of Scotland show that alcohol has overtaken drug misuse as a direct cause of death in Scotland](/resources/images/128x89/1x/17173284.jpg)
![Latest figures from the National Records of Scotland show that alcohol has overtaken drug misuse as a direct cause of death in Scotland](/resources/images/180x180/1x/17173284.jpg)
Letters
![Pauline was hospitalised four times due to alcohol after her drinking spiralled out of control following retirement](/resources/images/128x89/1x/17167021.jpg)
![Pauline was hospitalised four times due to alcohol after her drinking spiralled out of control following retirement](/resources/images/180x180/1x/17167021.jpg)
CASE STUDY
![It comes amid a consultation on whether to raise the minimum unit price for alcohol in Scotland](/resources/images/128x89/1x/17046177.jpg)
![It comes amid a consultation on whether to raise the minimum unit price for alcohol in Scotland](/resources/images/180x180/1x/17046177.jpg)
![First Minister Humza Yousaf](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16683157.jpg)
![First Minister Humza Yousaf](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16683157.jpg)
![Public Health Scotland has today published its final evaluation, more than five years after minimum unit pricing took effect in Scotland.](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16931129.jpg)
![Public Health Scotland has today published its final evaluation, more than five years after minimum unit pricing took effect in Scotland.](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16931129.jpg)
![Scotland's landmark legislation on minimum unit pricing is being emulated around the world, but how effective is it at cutting deaths from alcohol consumption?](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16567458.jpg)
![Scotland's landmark legislation on minimum unit pricing is being emulated around the world, but how effective is it at cutting deaths from alcohol consumption?](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16567458.jpg)
![How can the number of deaths from alcohol and alcoholic-specific mortality rates both climb after minimum unit pricing if the policy is said to be saving lives?](/resources/images/128x89/1x/10432826.jpg)
![How can the number of deaths from alcohol and alcoholic-specific mortality rates both climb after minimum unit pricing if the policy is said to be saving lives?](/resources/images/180x180/1x/10432826.jpg)
ANALYSIS
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