The International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (IARD) welcomes its first associate member, leading global beverage producer The Coca-Cola Company. As an associate member, The Coca-Cola Company joins the world’s leading beer, wine, and spirits producers in their ambition to reduce ...
Read MoreTwo-thirds (66%) of adults surveyed in 10 countries around the world say the closure of cafès, bars, and restaurants negatively impacted on the social and mental wellbeing of the general population Almost half (45%) say their own social and mental wellbeing ...
Read More* Check Against Delivery * STARTS Thank you Chair. I am Julian Braithwaite, President and CEO of the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking. I am delivering this statement on behalf of the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking, which is supported ...
Read More25 September 2025, New York The International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (IARD), a science-based, not-for-profit organization with official status at the United Nations, welcomes the new Political Declaration on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases (NC Ds) at today’s Fourth UN ...
Read MoreResponding to the WHO Independent High-Level Commission’s report on Non-Communicable Diseases (NC Ds), Time to Deliver, President and CEO of the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (IARD), Henry Ashworth said:“We warmly welcome the recognition the Commission has given to the role ...
Read MoreUnderage drinking has fallen in over two-thirds of the 63 countries where national data is available, since 2003.Australia, all parts of Great Britain, and Trinidad and Tobago have seen declines of more than 40%.The International Alliance for Responsible Drinking is ...
Read MoreDrink-driving fatalities declined in 34 of 36 countries worldwide for which official national data is available.Fatalities reduced in 24 of 26 countries in Europe between 2006 and 2016.14 European countries saw a drop of at least 50% over this period, ...
Read MoreIn its March 2018 issue, the Drug and Alcohol Review published a response which IARD submitted to the publication: Petticrew, M., Maani Hessari, N., Knai, C., & Weiderpass, E. (2018). How alcohol industry organisations mislead the public about alcohol and ...
Read MoreResponding to a study in Nature Medicine looking at alcohol consumption and risk of diseases in Chinese men, the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking's Managing Director, Puja Darbari, said: “The main analysis of the study has a significant limitation as ...
Read MoreThis monograph presents the findings of the Global Actions on Harmful Drinking research project, which aimed to measure the nature and extent of unrecorded alcohol production and consumption in each of nine countries: Belarus, Botswana, Brazil, China, India, Kenya, Mexico, ...
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