Drinkaware, Gambleaware...same industry playbook and tactics...yet we allow these industries to advertise to our children, influence our politicians etc...

So looking forward to this event highlighting the vital importance of funding the excellent work at the Rise Foundation through sale of Paddy's inspiring creative poetry. Also Sheila Gilheany in conversation with myself Silent Voices Ireland & MLawlor.

Such honesty, eloquence & truth.
These oil chiefs need to end their profiteering if our planet is to survive.

Excellent contribution from Sheila Gilheany about the marketing of alcohol - which is no ordinary product. We need to start seeing alcohol for what it is - a psychoactive substance, and treat it accordingly. Tobacco products would not be promoted on live TV in same way.

'Companies are cynically commodifying the guilt, stress and exhaustion many women feel with the pressures of modern life, by selling alcohol as the cure.' It is time for governments to act, argues Catarina Giorgi, CEO of FARE. Caterina Giorgi @fareaustralia
womensagenda.com.au/life/womens-he…

I spent 22 years as a problem drinker. Here are 10 things I’ve learned since I quit

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Such remarkable & courageous words from the daughter of a Dad with alcohol addiction describing low finances espec for food which inspired her 'trailblazing' work on food security. @nacoa PEIN Silent Voices Ireland Peter Rice IAS Movendi International

A really good idea provided company has no big alcohol associations.

Practical nudges.......

At some point we will look back in amazement that alcohol sports sponsorship was ever allowed. Tobacco sponsorship would not be countenanced now.

In considering proposals to increase licensing hours in Ireland through #SaleofAlcoholBill , important to look at outcomes in other jurisdictions.

My adored singer fadó & still.
Congrats Raymond/Gilbert

Thank you John for your powerful and heartbreaking testimony. Alcohol robs families every day but it doesn’t have to be this way. Gov certainly can help by not extending licensing hours. These decisions have impacts. #SaleOfAlcoholBill Simon Harris TD Charlie Flanagan

Really good to hear RSA Ireland Chair, Liz O’Donnell, making a strong call for an impact assessment of proposals to extend licensing hours and to base such decisions on the evidence. Serious road safety concerns about increasing alcohol availability.

Mark Mehigan: ‘If it wasn’t for cocaine, I would not be in recovery. I would have continued to get away with the drinking’
Superb article. Paddy Creedon
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Delighted to see you receive this recognition Sheila for your persistence in ensuring the pop faces realities of alco harm + gross inadequacies in Gov policy. You & team helping ++ to realise hope of founder members 20yrs ago Silent Voices Ireland #voicesofrecovery

So many qtns arising from this heartbreaking story. No one saw risk? Children exposed to so much harm. Silent Voices Ireland Nacoa 🔆
Man ignored daughter’s pleas for help as mother lay dead in apartment for days during Covid pandemic

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Our Voices of Recovery event in Belfast will feature a discussion between Marion Rackard of Silent Voices Ireland and Paddy Creedon of Voices of Recovery talking about how problem alcohol use harms the family. Book now - alcoholireland.ie/campaigns/voic…

Equivalents to Silent Voices Ireland now becoming a worldwide movement to raise awareness of impact of parental problem alcohol use on children.
Excellent forums for sharing e.g. Nacoa 🔆 Facebook page.

Such a rare & welcome opportunity to explore & discuss the impact of addiction on family relationships & a journey towards healing.
Sharing the delight Paddy Creedon Silent Voices Ireland AlcoholActionIreland