Dry January®: a recipe for a February binge?

Maddy Lawson | January 2019 |

This year's favourite Dry January® criticism: “We should drink in moderation all year round, not cut out the booze for a month and binge in February.”

Research by the University of Sussex with over 800 Dry January participants shows that, even six months after Dry January, participants are drinking less.

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Reducing alcohol harm: where does Dry January fit in?

Maddy Lawson | January 2019 |

We haven’t tackled here the other criticism that Dry January has come in for this year: that it doesn’t do anything to help people with serious drinking problems.
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Dry January®: the evidence

Dr Richard Piper | December 2019 |

At Alcohol Change UK we value evidence; as a new decade approaches Chief Executive Dr Richard Piper summarises some of the research on Dry January®’s effectiveness.