RCP Comments On BMA Report And Tesco, UK
Main Category: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal DrugsArticle Date: 22 Feb 2008 - 4:00 PDT
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Professor Ian Gilmore, President of the Royal College of Physicians and Chair of the Alcohol Health Alliance responds to reports in the media that Tesco are willing to discuss legislation that would limit its ability to sell cut-price alcohol, and the new BMA report on alcohol misuse:
"We welcome this change of stance from Tesco that they now accept the importance of price in alcohol consumption on health related harm. We have been calling for a rise in the price of alcohol, which we know from research is a key factor in reducing alcohol consumption.
We also welcome the report today from the BMA regarding alcohol misuse, the recommendations from which are in line with what the Alcohol Health Alliance has been campaigning for, and would welcome the BMA to join our 24 strong body".
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The Government Ignores Evidence In Dealing With Alcohol Problems.
posted by peteroloughlin5@hotmail.com on 23 Feb 2008 at 3:49 amFirst, thank you to Prof Gilmore for his comments.
Following my comments, (Medical News Today 21.07.07), criticising the government's so called alcohol strategy, and my plea that an authoritative, responsible body would challenge the government on it's seeming unwillingness to seriously tackle the problem by listening to the evidence, rather than the views of delegates from the alcohol drinks industry, I am delighted to note that the BMA have taken up the challenge and published recommendations which support those of the Alcohol Health Alliance. I too hope they join forces with the latter in their endeavours to persuade the government that the time for real action is overdue.
In the process it is my hope that they will persuade the government that alcoholism is a very complex disorder, and one that civil servants are not qualified to comment on, or designing ineffective 'strategies' or ''tools' for dealing with it..
A classic example of the latter has just been published by NHS Choices, entitled 'Are you drinking too much? The document consists of a number of qestions relating to alcohol consumption, together with a choice of 3 options for each answer.
Not only are the questions vacuous, the suggested answers are meaningless from the point of view of assessing whether or not those answering it are drinking at levels that are hazardous, dangerous, or addicted. Indeed the conclusions that one can draw in accordance with the 'assessment instructions' are as equally meaningless as the questions.
One can only conclude that whoever dreamt this document up is unfamiliar with, or chose to ignore WHO's self audit or professional's test, both of which have been critically peer reviewed and universally validated as highly effective in assessing the severity of an individuals drinking.
There are also a umber of other validated tools which are far more effective than the offering from the NHS, but again these have been ignored. Therefore one is entitled to conclude that when it comes to dealing with the problems caused by alcohol, the NHS is determined to ignore empirical and universal evidence.
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