Alcohol & Alcoholism Vol. 39, No. 5, pp. 377-379, 2004
Alcohol & Alcoholism Vol. 39, No. 5 © Medical Council on Alcohol 2004; all rights reserved
INVITED COMMENTARY
AN ALCOHOL STRATEGY FOR ENGLAND: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
Addictive Behaviour, Department of Mental Health, St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London, UK
* Correspondence: Addictive Behaviour, Department of Mental Health, St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London, Cranmer Terrace, London, SW17 0RE, UK. E-mail: colin.drummond@sghms.ac.uk
(Received 25 June 2004; first review notified 27 June 2004; in revised form 15 July 2004; accepted 15 July 2004)
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On March 15, 2004, the UK Government published its long awaited National Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy for England (NAHRSE) (PMSU, 2004
). The Government first announced its plans to prepare an alcohol strategy in 1998, and it is unclear why it has taken 6 years to publish it. The delay may be related to disagreements between government departments with competing interests in alcohol policy. A similar alcohol policy initiative in 1979 by the last Labour Government resulted in a report (Alcohol Policies) that was never published in the UK, but instead was published in Sweden without the agreement of the UK Government (Bruun, 1982). So at least we should be grateful that England has an alcohol strategy. Or should we?
We certainly need a strategy to combat the rising tide of alcohol problems in the UK. It is clear from the published research and the government's Interim
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