01.07.2024 – 07.07.2024
Alcohol awareness week is held in July by Alcohol Changes UK. Each year the focus changes, this year is focused on ‘Alcohol and Cost’.
Alcohol can have a major impact on you personally as well your family, friends, social life, working life and the community. The impacts of alcohol are often not seen until it starts to affect you physical and emotionally, which can lead to relationship problems, financial problems and massively impact your mental health.
Alcohol death rates are rapidly increasing since the coronavirus pandemic. Alcohol costs on average around £10,000 in our lifetime and social cost of alcohol to society is over £20billion every year which also increases the severe amount of pressure on the NHS and emergency services.
Although the cost of living crisis has had a major impact on a lot of people over the past year, this has resulted in people turning to alcohol to help them try to cope with the cost of every day living.
The aim of the Alcohol Awareness Week is to make people realise they have a choice to drink alcohol or not rather than doing this by default. This will then reduce the changes of individuals becoming addicted and reducing the potential to becoming serious ill with problems such as liver disease and cancer.
To get involved with alcohol awareness week please use the link below
About Alcohol Awareness Week | Alcohol Change UK
