This guide is to be used in conjunction with existing resources to talk about alcohol. These include IAS’s communications strategy (internal document), the Alcohol Health Alliance’s language bank (internal document), and other organisations’ resources, such as Scottish Drugs Forum. This guide can be used alongside further resources and tools for addressing risk of bias in research, assessing or analysing data, or reporting findings, for example the VISION consortium’s data assessment tool or the government’s social research profession’s guide to inclusive social research practices.