Alcohol Concern has called on MPs and candidates in the general election to support alcohol treatment services in their local constituencies by calling for a national alcohol treatment target and for the government to provide a funding boost for alcohol services.
The charity called on the government to see alcohol misuse as a public health issue as important and urgent as smoking, obesity and drugs misuse and to set a target to reduce harmful drinking, in the same way that it does for other major health harms. They called for action on the affordability, availability and advertising of alcohol and for licensing decisions to take in to account the public health of local communities.
Download a copy of the Alcohol Concern General Election Manifesto -
'Building
a healthier relationship with alcohol' or see the press
release for further information.
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