A key element of the Government’s Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy ( 2004) is the focus on local coordinated action to reduce the cost of alcohol to the individual and communities. A new report from the Joseph Rowntree reviews international experience of comunity-based programmes and provides recommendations for how they could be made to work in the United Kingdom. Betsy Thom and Mariana Bayley (2007) Multi-component programmes: an approach to prevention and reduction of alcohol-related harm, York, Joesph Rowntree Foundation.
