EAST MIDLANDS ALCOHOL HARM REDUCTION NETWORK
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Useful websites
- Safe.Sensible.Social – The next steps in the Alcohol Strategy.
National strategy developed by the Home Office, Department of Health, Department of Children, Schools and Families and Department of Culture, Media and Sport.
www.homeoffice.gov.uk/
www.dh.gov.uk/en/index.htm - Alcohol Briefing in the East Midlands (East Midlands Public Health Observatory, 2007)
Contains useful facts and figures about alcohol consumption and the imapct of alcohol misuse on the East Midlands
www.empho.org.uk - Alcohol and the East Midlands (Intelligence East Midlands briefing, 2007)
Facts, figures and initiatives in the East Midlands
www.eastmidlandsobservatory.org.uk/uploads/documents/89137/Alcohol%20v1.pdf - Local alcohol profiles for England
Data covering the whole of England and collated and published by the North West Public Health Observatory
www.nwph.net/alcohol/lape - Alcohol health Alliance UK
24 independent organisations mainly charities with concerns about the impact of alcohol on the country's health have formed the Alcohol Health Alliance UK.
www.rcplondon.ac.uk/news/news.asp?PR-id=377 - Alcohol in Europe report
ec.europa.eu/health-eu/my_lifestyle/alcohol/index_en.htm - Alcohol Concern
Useful website containing key issues, news and press, campaigns, briefings to Parliament and factsheets
www.alcoholconcern.org.uk/servlets/home - The Institute of Alcohol Studies
An independent organisation with the broad aim of increasing awareness of alcohol-related issues in society
www.ias.org.uk/ - The Portman Group
The Portman Group works with the drinks industry to raise standards of marketing and encourage social responsibility.
www.portman-group.org.uk - The Drink Aware Trust
Governed by a Board of Trustees comprising of both health professionals and industry. This group aims to positively change public behaviour and the national drinking culture to help reduce alcohol mouse and minimise alcohol-related harm
www.drinkaware.co.uk - APAS (Alcohol Problems Advisory Service)
An independent provider of all kinds of services desgined to reduce the harm alcohol causes to individuals, families and the communities they live in.
www.apas.org.uk - HubCAPP (Hub of Commissioned Alcohol Projects and Policies)
An online resource of local alcohol initiatives throughout England
www.hubcapp.org.uk