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10/11/2008 by admin.
Just found this article below at Timesonline here,
1. Do you ever worry that you drink too much?
2. Have friends or family expressed concern about you about your drinking habits?
3. Do you find you can drink a lot without becoming drunk?
4. Do you need to drink more to have the same effect?
5. Have you tried to stop drinking, but found that you were unable to for more than a few days?
6. Do you carry on drinking even though it is interfering with your work, family or relationships?
7. Do you need a drink to start the day?
8. Do you get shaky, sweaty or anxious a few hours after your last drink?
9. Have you experienced blanks in your memory, where you can’t remember what happened for a period of hours or days?
10. Is your judgement affected by alcohol, so that you do things that you normally wouldn’t, such as starting fights or arguments, having unprotected sex with strangers or becoming violent.
If you answer yes to more than three of these questions, it is indicator of alcohol misuse.
If you’re worried you may be suffering from alcoholism, have a problem with alcohol or just want to cut down your intake visit your GP or for help, support and further information contact one of the following organisations:
Offering support, information and meetings for people who have a problem with alcohol
The national agency on alcohol misuse, providing information and support
Practical advice for people with alcohol problems, their friends and their relatives. Including a directory of rehab centres.
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10/11/2008 by admin.
Today MP’s are to call for an end to alcohol promotions such as the ‘happy hour’ to come to an end.
A Home Affairs Select Committee report on policing will report on the increasing problems caused to the police by the changes in the alcohol legislation in 2005
Here is an extract from the todays Times newspaper coverage
Cheap drinks promotions such as happy hours and price discounts should to be banned in an attempt to address growing evidence of rising drunken violence, MPs will say today.
Police forces are diverting significant resources into alcohol-related crime at the expense of other offences, the Home Affairs Select Committee will report.
In a major report on policing, it sounded a warning of the growing problems caused by changes to the licensing laws in 2005, as well as raising a raft of concerns about other areas of police work.
The committee is calling for cheap drink promotions to be banned as part of a move to make the alcohol trade’s voluntary standards compulsory with a more effective inspection regime and penalties for breaches. In 2007, alcohol was 69 per cent more affordable in Britain than in 1980.
The report highlighted a 25 per cent increase in serious violent crimes committed between 3am and 6am, and pointed to British Crime Survey figures showing 45 per cent of victims of violence say their assailant was under the influence of alcohol.
The committee expressed concerned that, as one force put it, “the whole focus of officer shift patterns is to deploy sufficient resources at weekends to cope with alcohol-fuelled disorder, and football violence”. Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, has said that alcohol is a factor in over 30 per cent of city centre arrests.
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