Our goals 2025-2029

Goal 4: The provision of comprehensive services to address the harms caused by alcohol

Alcohol continues to inflict enormous harms in Irish society, much of it intergenerational. There is an urgent need for early intervention strategies and the development of comprehensive services to reduce and address alcohol harm. It is important to recognise the role of trauma in many of these areas and to ensure the voices of lived experience of alcohol harms are heard and included in policy making.

Our advocacy goals, specifically developed by people in long-term recovery from alcohol dependency include:

  • Improved information, treatment and recovery services. There is a particular need to fully integrate addiction services and mental health services and ensure comprehensive funding as well as enhanced communications and more timely treatment pathways.
  • Alcohol Care Teams within all major hospitals and linked to community services. Such teams are a proven cost-effective approach to providing much needed interventions for people with entrenched problem alcohol use.
  • Enhanced training and education re addiction in third level modules
  • Treatment interventions for drink driving offenders
  • New initiatives including advertising that will reduce levels of shame and stigma
  • Addressing alcohol harm in corporate environments
  • On-going collection of data on Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)
  • The abolition of alcohol product placement ‘custom and practices’ by public officials and other high-profile individuals
  • 24-hours-a-day alcohol helpline
  • Removal of alcohol branding on all forms of transport
  • Similar restrictions on alcohol-free/0.0 products as with mainstream alcohol products
  • A ring-fenced levy on alcohol sales

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