Alcohol policies

摘要

An essay in the April issue of the BJGP1 spells out clearly the need for a truly ‘strategic’, multilevel policy response to the growing problem of alcohol-related illness in the UK. Even in core primary care services, like maternity care or family planning, patterns of alcohol use across the lifespan cause multi-faceted problems.2 Within schools' revised personal, social, and health education programme, alcohol education is a prominent area, but we are struggling now to create good learning materials and to build confidence among teachers that they can help ‘make being drunk socially unacceptable’.1