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The National Context - Alcohol Harm-prevention, Treatment and Recovery
Iain Armstrong PHE Alcohol Programme Manager South of England
The Issue
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Harm-prevention, Treatment and Recovery Iain Armstrong PHE Alcohol - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Harm-prevention, Treatment and Recovery Iain Armstrong PHE Alcohol - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Alcohol
- Commodity
- Drug
- Toxic
- It can be, at the same time, a food, a drug and
an elaborate cultural artefact with important symbolic meaning
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Risks
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Nottingham
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What needs to be done?
- For those who drink, we need to make lower risk
drinking an easy choice to make
- We need to target those most a risk
- We need to respond to, and reduce the harm
experienced by those who have already developed problems
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Effective Alcohol Policy (WHO)
- Price
- Regulating physical availability
- Modifying the drinking environment
- Drink-driving countermeasures
- Brief interventions (IBA)
- Specialist treatment
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PHE high level objective and actions
- Developing the evidence and increasing awareness of the harmful
effects of alcohol and the impact of interventions to support policy development nationally and locally
- Supporting and promoting effective use of licensing legislation and
local powers to create a safer drinking environment that encourages people who drink to do so at a lower risk levels
- Encouraging and supporting people who drink to do so within the
lower risk levels
- Reducing the harmful impact of alcohol on individuals who already
experience harm
- Supporting improvements in treatment provision in line with NICE
guidance
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What local areas can do to address alcohol-related harm:
- Local behaviour change campaigns that include alcohol
- Local Responsibility Deals that include alcohol
- Effective use of DsPH statutory powers in the Licencing Act
- Local use of powers to restrict the irresponsible sale of alcohol
- Implementation of the alcohol Health Check in line with guidance
- Significant expansion of Identification and Brief Advice in a range
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- Effective use of hospital-based alcohol services
- Specialist treatment that is accessible and matched to local need
- Treatment services that are good quality and compliant with NICE
guidance
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