Alcohol Focus Scotland
@AlcoholFocus
Scotland's national charity working to prevent and reduce the harm caused by alcohol.
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http://www.alcohol-focus-scotland.org.uk 26-10-2009 09:49:26
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'We need to make binge-drinking as socially unacceptable as smoking. Alcoholism tears apart families, ends friendships, ruins lives and kills people. There is something very, very wrong here.'
Gary Nunn 🏳️🌈🚴🏼🇬🇧🇦🇺 on children drinking and the rise in alcohol harm.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Interested in:
📺 the nature of alcohol marketing
✅ how regulations can help create a future free from alcohol harm
Join Alcohol Health Alliance UK's first #AHAManifestoSeries to hear from Dr Alex Barker and our very own Michaela Jones
📅 11:00 Thurs 9 May
Register 🔽
eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-alcohol-…
📢 April is #StressAwarenessMonth
There are cultural cues all around telling us that #Alcohol helps us relax - in movies, TV shows & of course #BigAlcohol marketing
But does alcohol actually relieve stress? 🤔
Check out our short video for more🔽
Proud to endorse a new set of materials for #PublicHealth professionals to introduce colleagues to the issues around commercial determinants of health.
Congratulations Anna Brook, Katherine Körner (she/her), @maisie333 & Mark Petticrew who developed the materials.
➡️bit.ly/4baS72G
Alcohol directly causes cardiovascular disease (CVD).
And in 2021, almost half of all alcohol-related hospital admissions were for CVD.
Watch our full film for more information: youtube.com/watch?v=lh7TzX…
#HeartFailureAwarenessDays European Society of Cardiology
📢 April is #BowelCancer AwarenessMonth
#Alcohol is one of the leading causes of preventable cancers - including #BowelCancer ⚠️
But #BigAlcohol would rather you didn't know that🤫
Find out more about our work on alcohol labelling 🔽
alcohol-focus-scotland.org.uk/campaigns-poli…
Register now for our 3rd Alcohol Occasional seminar!
James Morris & Dr Gemma Mitchell will discuss how the language we choose may help us to reduce alcohol-related harms.
🗓️ Wed 22 May
⏰ 12.45 - 2pm
🌐 Online
bit.ly/4attK0q
📢 April is #BowelCancerAwarenessMonth
46% of Scots still don't know that #Alcohol is a leading cause of #Cancer globally
#BigAlcohol doesn't want you to know🤫
It's time to end broken industry promises and introduce mandatory health warnings on alcohol⚠️
This is a brilliant article by #BMJinvestigation on how alcohol industry funded educational programmes serve commercial interests and are embedded in UK schools and universities #CDoH Mark Petticrew May van Schalkwyk Commercial Determinants Research Group at LSHTM IAS SHAAP Alcohol Change UK Alcohol Focus Scotland
Many thanks to Monica Lennon MSP for raising a number of timely questions relating to alcohol treatment and care 👏
Read the questions:
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It's time to put #AllOurRightsinLaw !
To find out everything you need to know about Scotland's new Human Rights Bill, and why putting our international human rights into Scots law will make a difference, read our short briefing: buff.ly/3ug0Gtt