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Welcome
Alcohol Concern is the national agency on alcohol misuse campaigning for effective alcohol policy and improved services for people whose lives are affected by alcohol-related problems.
- New licensing powers for local authorities to allow blanket ban on 24-hour opening
- Alcohol-related death rates increase in the UK
- Smoking, drinking and drug-use among young people findings by region 2006 to 2008
- Professionals drink more than manual workers
- More news
Alcohol Concern provides a range of consultancy and training services designed and delivered by experts in the field.
Find local alcohol services in your area - go to our online directory of services for problem drinkers and their families.
Alcohol Concern runs a number of projects that aim to build capacity in the sector:
News from our projects:
- Embrace publishes new knowledge set on parenting
- HubCAPP launches national awards
- Alcohol Concern Cymru formally launches its work in Wales
- Smart conference - March 2010
Alcohol Concern acts as a hub for organisations and individuals that want to reduce alcohol-related harms. Our membership scheme puts our supporters at the heart of the latest developments within the alcohol field.
Collectively Alcohol Concern's members form a powerful lobby to help influence government, the media and the drinks industry - enabling change and fulfilling everyone's goal - to tackle the problems caused by alcohol misuse.
Benefits of membership include:
- Free copies of our quarterly magazine, Straight Talk
- Free copies of our publications and reports; discounts on conferences and training
- A quarterly policy update
Alcohol Concern News is a free, monthly email bulletin providing you with a round-up of the latest news and policy developments on alcohol misuse.
The bulletin includes:
- - the latest information on alcohol policy, government initiatives and new reports
- - updates on Alcohol Concern's work
- - information from our projects
Drug & Alcohol Findings is a project that bridges the divide between research on the effectiveness of responses to drug and alcohol problems and the practitioners who provide those interventions, with a focus on UK-relevant research.
The project aims to encapsulate the studies' findings, set them in context and to explore the implications for practice.
Drug & Alcohol Findings is a partnership project managed by:
- Alcohol Concern
- DrugScope
- the National Addiction Centre
- and the editor, Mike Ashton