Resources
There are many places on the net where you can find more information about alcohol and health policy. Here are some links to start with.
Alcohol facts
http://www.who.int/topics/ alcohol_drinking/en/
http://www.euro.who.int/healthtopics/HT2ndLvlPage?HTCode=alcohol_drinkin
WHO Regional Office for Europe. Health topics: alcohol Country information
Alcohol in developing countries
http://www.add-resources.org/
»Alcohol, Drugs and Development« is the name of a development program by FORUT; The Norwegian Campaign for Development and Solidarity. ADD is a global program within FORUT, in the sense that it involves all countries with FORUT activities and also FORUT action on the international level. As one of its main priorities, FORUT aims at integration of alcohol and drugs perspectives in its development programs, as well as in the field of development cooperation in general.
On this site you will find tools and news about drugs and development. Among other things a manual for alcohol and drug prevention for development agencies
What works to reduce alcohol harm
Alcohol: no ordinary commodity:
A summary of the book which is a collaboration by an international group of scientists. Describes recent advances in alcohol research, and which strategies who has been proven most effective reducing alcohol harm.
The book can be bought at Amazon
Alcohol in Europe
Report : Alcohol in Europe
At the time that the European Commission has been preparing its own strategy on alcohol to cover the full range of activity that takes place at a European level, it called for an analysis of the health, social and economic impact of alcohol in Europe. This is the present report, written by Institute on Alcohol Studies in Britain, which is an expert synthesis of published reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses and individual papers, as well as an analysis of data made available by the European Commission and the World Health Organization.
You can find a pdf-file with a summary
On October 24 2007 the European Commission adopted a Communication setting out a strategy to support Member States in reducing alcohol-related harm
Eurobarameter: Attitudes towards alcohol in Europe
WHO European Charter on Alcohol
Drinking among adolescents
ESPAD
Home page of ESPAD – the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs. ESPAD is a collaborative effort of independent research teams in about forty European countries and the largest cross-national research project on adolescent substance use in the world.
Organisations
IOGT International
Active – Sobriety, Friendship and Peace
WHO Management of substance abuse
WHO Expert Commitee on Problems Related to Alcohol Consumption
EUROCARE
Formed in 1990 as an alliance of voluntary and non-governmental organisations representing a diversity of views and cultural attitudes and concerned with the impact of the European Union on alcohol policy in Member States.
Global Alcohol Policy Alliance
The Globe – The official journal of the alliance
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