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This week is #EuropeanAlcoholAwarenessWeek , and so we are encouraging people to stop and think about the bigger picture when it comes to alcohol AAI has in recent months been running a campaign to highlight the consequences of increasing alcohol...
The data comes as Alcohol Action Ireland is this Friday formally launching its Voices of Recovery initiative with an evening of music and arts headlined by the prestigious Dublin Gospel Choir, Nov 24, St Catherine's Church. 22/11/23 AAI welcomes today’s...
Alcohol Action Ireland (AAI) welcomes reports that Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly has signed the commencement order of Section 19 of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 (PHAA) which places a 9 p.m. broadcast watershed for alcohol advertisements on television....
Alcohol is associated with a range of chronic and acute medical conditions, including liver cirrhosis, various cancers, road traffic accidents and suicide. The 2009 Health Research Board report "Health-Related Consequences of Problem Alcohol Use" makes a number of recommendations about what is needed in Ireland to reduce the health-related consequences of alcohol consumption
Alcohol causes nearly 4 percent of deaths worldwide, more than AIDS, tuberculosis or violence, according to the World Health Organisation. It’s 2011 Global status report on alcohol and healthsays that approximately 2.5 million people die each year from alcohol related causes. Yet alcohol control policies are weak and remain a low priority for most governments despite drinking’s heavy toll on society from road accidents, violence, disease, child neglect and job absenteeism, it said
Alcohol is associated with a range of chronic and acute medical conditions, including liver cirrhosis, various cancers, road traffic accidents and suicide. The 2009 Health Research Board report "Health-Related Consequences of Problem Alcohol Use" makes a number of recommendations about what is needed in Ireland to reduce the health-related consequences of alcohol consumption.
