Alcohol Awareness Week 19 - 25 November 2012

Alcohol Awareness Week 2012 is centred around the theme of encouraging a healthy national conversation about alcohol. It also invites people to give alcohol up for a month. Alcohol Concern, the promoter of Alcohol Awareness Week, says that one of the nation’s defining features is that people love to talk about drinking - but Alcohol Concern poses the question of whether we are having the right kind of conversation. It says that the Week will provide great flexibility to have all kinds of conversations about the health risks, social problems, stigmas and taboos associated with talking about the dangers of alcohol. It also allows local groups to focus on different areas.

To help the process, Alcohol Concern has produced a set of conversation starter cards, which can be downloaded from their website. Alcohol Concern’s pre-launch publicity continues:

“One of the main ways we’re going to start the conversation is by challenging people to give up alcohol for a month in January 2013. From AAW people will be able to sign up either as an individual or a team to give up drinking for a month. We’re going to ask people to pledge money or get sponsored to motivate them to stick at the challenge. We’ll also be providing people with tips and information on cutting down and how this will help their health, sleeping patterns and general wellbeing.”