This report highlights the harm due to alcohol experienced across England. Each section highlights a different measure of the effect of alcohol on the population. It reviews 36 different indicators and 84 separate sub-measures relating to the individual, community and population showing the implications of alcohol use and its effect on health and well-being. The report is intended to complement the new national strategy Safe.Sensible. Social. This is a valuable resource for Directors of Public Health who play a key role in identifying health and social care priorities.
Archive for August, 2007
Statistics on alcohol: England, 2007
August 6, 2007This comprehensive bulletin provides a range of information on alcohol use, misuse and its effects from a wide variety of sources. The bulletin aims to present a picture of health issues realting to alcohol in England. It covers drinking patterns in different groups, presents European comparisons and figures on alcohol-related ill-health, mortality, alcohol-related costs. This bulletin is an essential reference source on alcohol use and misuse in the England today.
The Information Centre (2007) Statistics on alcohol: England, 2007,
Breakthrough Britain – ending the cost of social breakdown.vol 4: Addictions: Policy recommendations to the Conservative Party.
August 6, 2007The Social Justice Policy Group has just completed a review and analysis of current drug and alcohol policies based on extensive consultation with organisations involved in alcohol-harm prevention and treatment. The report makes a number of recommendations including a proposal an extra alcohol tax to fund drug treatment programmes
Kath Gyngell (2007) Breakthrough Britain – ending the cost of social breakdown.vol 4: Addictions:
Violent crime, disorder and criminal damage since the introduction of the Licensing Act 2003
August 1, 2007The Licensing Act 2003 came into force on November 24 2005. It established a single integrated scheme for licensing premises, dealing with alcohol, regulated entertainment and late night refreshment, and enabled flexible opening hours. The Home Office is leading an evaluation of the Act on levels of crime and disorder, using a range of measures at both a national and local level. The results from this evaluation will be published at the end of 2007.
In the meantime the Home Office has carried out a monitoring exercise carried out to get an indication of the change in police recorded crime following the introduction of the Licensing Act 2003. This paper builds on this, providing a more detailed analysis for data up to November 2006 and will contribute to the overall evaluation of the Act. It focuses on the types of offences that occur around licensed premises or can occur as a result of alcohol misuse, to see whether there was a change in recorded violent crime, disorder and criminal damage following the introduction of the Act in November 2005 and whether the timing of offences had changed.
Safe. Sensible. Social
August 1, 2007
Safe. Sensible. Social. The next steps in the National Alcohol Strategy reviews progress since the publication of the Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy for England (2004) and outlines further national and local action to achieve long-term reductions in alcohol-related ill health and crime.
Alcohol Concern considers that many aspects of the new strategy are to be welcomed, such as the greater emphasis on health, the recognition of the need to support harmful drinkers and a tighter focus on ensuring the drinks industry operates in a responsible way. The Government has also made a welcome commitment to raise public
awareness about how to drink safely and about the potential consequences of not doing so. Alcohol Concern has lobbied hard to secure these commitments, and many others contained within the new Strategy, and we are pleased to see Government taking a more
comprehensive approach to tackling alcohol harm. However there are also serious omissions in the Strategy, such as the lack of effort to ensure enough high quality treatment is available for those who need it.
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