Our grateful thanks to the charity Alcohol Change UK for their contribution to our radio report (which you can hear again at the bottom of this page). To connect through to the charity for further information, help and support click here.
Alcohol related harm (the theme of this years Alcohol Awareness Initiative) leads to thousands of lives lost, and hundreds of thousands more damaged.
The purpose behind Alcohol Awareness Week is not to demonise drinkers, but to encourage them and those around them to look at their relationship with alcohol, have conversations and, where needed, make changes. If you're worried about your own or someone else's drinking, click here to get support
Research suggests many of us see alcohol harm as something that happens to a small group of dependent drinkers who do not or cannot control their drinking, and that are mostly beyond help but this isn’t the case, as Joe Marley from Alcohol Change UK highlighted in my radio report.
Much of the harm from alcohol – death, illness, violence, and neglect – comes not from dependent drinkers, but from those drinking at high levels that may still be considered by many to be ‘normal’ drinkers.
Alcohol is a causal factor in more than 60 medical conditions, including: mouth, throat, stomach, liver and breast cancers; high blood pressure, cirrhosis of the liver, depression and, that:
These are just some of the medical statistics related to alcohol consumption, there’s also the impact of alcohol related violence and neglect to consider.
Listen to this weeks radio report
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