Podcast fans and regular APUK readers may be wondering where the Alcohol Policy UK podcast has got to. Well, we will be relaunching it bigger and better very soon.
The shout has gone out for a new producer for the podcast, via Adam (The Podfather) Curry's Daily Source Code. Listen to the show here (the alcohol bit is at 29 mins 32). Thanks Adam.
So if you can help, please get in touch.
The fifth in the alcoholpolicy.net/LDAN 2007 series of alcohol strategy action planning workshops looked at alcohol-related domestic violence, and interventions with perpetrators. The workshop featured speakers, discussion and debate.
Below is audio from the first part of the session. The workshop report and audio from Christine Noon (talking about Probation's response) and Keri Abbadi (joint working through the MARAC) will be added shortly.
Introduction by Libby Ranzetta, alcoholpolicy.net
Overview of the issues by Karen Bailey, Stella Project
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Working with perpetrators who have alcohol problems by Stuart Cameron, Tryangle Project
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Links to things Stuart mentioned: BAGRA
DV alcohol arrest referral pilot by Hannah Lindsell and Claire Sibson, Lewisham
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We reported in August that alcohol and drug services are required to submit alcohol data to the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) from April 2008. I asked Don Shenker, Director of Policy and Services at Alcohol Concern for some background to this, and about support for services in meeting this requirement. Here's what he said:
Meanwhile, Mary Longley, Primary Care Alcohol Development Facilitator at Camden PCT sent me this query:
I was wondering, do you have any information about plans to introduce reporting for alcohol in April 2008? I'm particularly interested to know if the format of counting the number of days' consumption of alcohol in the last 28 which is required for current drugs monitoring is going to be replicated, and how it is intended that any system of quantification be dovetailed with screening instruments which fail to yield this information comprehensively?
If any readers have answers or other queries, please do send them in (email me) or leave a comment.
The Alcohol Liaison Forum took place on Wednesday 28th March at the Soho Centre for Health and Care in Central London. The focus of the event was alcohol liaison work in hospitals and health care settings. It was attended by nurses, alcohol and/or drugs workers with an interest in alcohol liaison at hospitals or other settings, and other interested parties such as commissioners and service managers.
The first Substance Misuse Liaison Nurses Conference was held in Birmingham in October 2006. Attendees wanted to keep in touch to discuss the issues of such work, especially with increasing developments in alcohol liaison in hospitals. Download the programme here.
The speakers include leading experts and practitioners in alcohol liaison work and Wernicke's Encephalopathy.
1. Robin Touquet: Introduction slides (1-13)
2. Allan Thomson: Wernicke’s encephalopathy - clinical aspects from diagnosis to treatment and prevention slides 14-20
Video used in the presentation
Irene Guerrini: Alocal related thiamine deficiency: what can we do in the community? slides 21-35
3. Moya Forsythe, Rachel Cloudesley, Ruth Cooke, Paramabandhu Groves: Development of alcohol screening and liaison slides
4. Bob Patton: Alcohol problems in A&E: researching the interventions slides
5. Adrian Brown: Alcohol withdrawal management slides
The speakers (left to right): Moya Forsythe, Robin Touquet, Rachel Cloudesley, Bob Patton, Ruth Cooke, Allan Thomson, Adrian Brown, Irene Guerrini, Paramabandhu Groves
View all photos from the Forum here.
A Merseyside paramedic’s campaign to tackle teenage binge-drinking has been taken up as an example of good practice by alcohol abuse teams in France, Jersey and South Africa.
Steve Evans, who works for North West Ambulance Service, has won numerous awards for his Don’t Walk Away campaign designed to
teach young people to deal with the consequences of alcohol abuse.
Since
he started the campaign more than five years ago he has distributed more than 10,000 packs
of information consisting of posters, first aid advice leaflets, power point
presentations, lesson plans and DVDs (see Resources, below), via schools, youth organisations and
simply meeting youngsters on the streets round the region.
Don’t Walk Away takes a hands-on approach to giving young people the knowledge about what to do when one of their group has consumed too much alcohol, by telling them how to put a person into the recovery position to prevent choking, what to do with an unconscious person, how to make the area safe and how to prevent hypothermia.
This podcast features an interview with Steve Evans.
00.00 Intro, music by Kaimoku
00.19 Introduction; get in touch by email; waxmail; or leave a comment on the site
05.53 What children drink...vodka, white cider, Lambrini
07.01 Under 18 alcohol-related hospital admissions data, NWPHO
10.30 Department of Health advice on alcohol poisoning etc
11.25 Teachernet
13.32 Don't Walk Away posters in TV soaps: The Bill, Emmerdale, Holby City
15.15 Using Rotary International to get the message out
17.53 Effectiveness of the campaign
19.30 Children's drinking etiquette
20.20 Music: Sinkin Drinkin Fits by Jessy Moss
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Resources
The relationship between alcohol consumption and the risk of stroke is complicated: moderate drinking reduces the risk of some types of stroke, whilst heavy drinking increases the risk of all types. The Stroke Association Factsheet: Alcohol and Stroke explains:
Nearly nine out of 10 strokes are ischaemic – caused by blood clots blocking arteries. As with heart attacks, small amounts of alcohol seem to help protect against this type of stroke.
The remaining percentage of strokes are haemorrhagic – bleeding caused by burst blood vessels in or around the brain. Alcohol does not protect against haemorrhagic strokes and even relatively small amounts of alcohol – two or three units per day – can double or treble the risk of having a haemorrhagic stroke.
Recent research has also shown that heavy drinking increases the risk of all types of stroke. A large Scottish study, which followed nearly 6,000 men over a period of 20 years, found that those who drank five or more units per day were twice as likely to die from a stroke compared with those who didn’t drink.
This episode of the Alcohol Policy UK podcast features an interview with Derek Mclean who has written a book, Return Ticket Please about his experiences of surviving an alcohol-related stroke in his 30s.
00.00 Intro, music by Kaimoku
01.13 Interview with Derek Mclean
18.54 contact Derek
20.20 Music by Fall Down Drunk by Summer at Shatter Creek
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00.00 Intro, music by Kaimoku
00.34 Get in touch: email us or send an audio comment using waxmail or MP3 to contact@alcoholpolicy.net leave a comment at Alcohol Policy UK, leave a voicemail on mobotalk (see right hand panel)
01.00 Ben Baumberg, Policy and Research Officer, Institute of Alcohol Studies; RAND report: An Ex Ante Assessment of the Economic Impacts of EU Alcohol Policies;
Alcohol in Europe full report here, summary, IAS press pack; An EU strategy to support Member States in reducing alcohol related harm, also the press release
02.20 overview of the report Alcohol in Europe
03.34 problems with comparing alcohol data across Europe; ESPAD; ECAS
05.01 European drinking cultures - stereotypes and reality
06.25 differences in drinking preferences across Europe and the implications for European alcohol policy
07.27 main drinking trends in Europe
09.20 factors involved in trends in youg people's drinking
11.52 recommendations in the report for EU policy
14.11 coordinating acitivity and data across Europe
15.19 Bridging the Gap project to network researchers; Building Capacity project; ELSA (advertising regulations); Pathways for Health (best practice project)
16.55 UK representation on pan European alcohol forums
17.40 building a coallition for alcohol policy
19.30 alcohol industry input to Alcohol in Europe and tactics to discredit the report
23.29 European Commission response to industry pressure
25.34 Brewers of Europe An Independent Review of Issues Related to Alcohol Consumption in Europe; Weinberg Group
26.27 how the industry should be engaged with alcohol policy development
27.00 alcohol industry approach to corporate social responsibility
27.32 addressing vested interests associated with alcohol
27.50 lobbying; Common Agricultural Policy reform of wine sector
30.26 what practitioners can do to influence policy development
32.22 forming a network of interested parties
34.00 Wine Country by EthniCali
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00.00 Intro, music by Kaimoku
00.36 feedback on alcohol free days and guidance on sensible limits; comment from David; original 1995 guidance
03.07 Blackpool's alcohol strategy: an interview with Ian Treasure, Alcohol Harm Reduction Policy Officer; Blackpool Alcohol Strategy; strategy Action Plan; HSJ awards; ALTN8 campaign; Know Your Limit campaign; Blackpool Local Area Agreement; Local Alcohol Strategy Toolkit
26.10 Get in touch: email us or send an audio comment using waxmail or MP3 to contact@alcoholpolicy.net leave comment on the site, leave a voicemail on mobotalk (see right hand panel)
26.57 100 Dollar Hangover by Lords of the Highway
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London: The highs and the lows 2 report from the Greater London Alcohol and Drug Alliance (GLADA), was launched by the Mayor of London at City Hall on Monday 22nd January.
Download the report from here.
Speakers at the launch featured in the audio file below (timings in brackets) were:
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00.00 Introduction, music by Kaimoku
00.52 Drinkaware Trust appoints new chair.
01.33 Get in touch: email us or send an audio comment using waxmail or MP3 to contact@alcoholpolicy.net leave comment on the blog,leave a voicemail on mobotalk (see right hand panel)
01.52 Has the government changed the sensible limits? Tony Goodall is concerned. (Previous post)
05.41 Moira Plant and Binge Britain, the Interim Analytical Report , possible changes to the consent laws
07.36 Mike Webb and the Hampshire campaign on alcohol-related rape, Did Sophie Consent, Southampton Daily Echo Keep Kids Sober campaign
13.58 Richard Carus talks about Recovery Cafe UK. See also his Recovery Cafe Australia, Recovery Cafe South Africa and Family Support Network
28.06 A Girl Don't Have to Drink to Have Fun by the Stumbleweeds
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