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Global Alcohol PolicyGlobal Alcohol PolicyGlobal Alcohol PolicyGlobal Alcohol Policy

WORKING IN EUROPE FOR THE PREVENTION OF ALCOHOL RELATED HARMWORKING IN EUROPE FOR THE PREVENTION OF ALCOHOL RELATED HARM

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Declarations of interest

Used to be Regional Advisor for both alcohol and tobacco policy, WHO Regional Office for Europe

Scientist and policy advisor for Eurocare

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Structure of presentation

1. Eurocare

2. The problem of alcohol

3. Some solutions for alcohol policy

4. Expectations of the WHO

5. What NGOs can bring

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Eurocare was formed in 1990 as an alliance of non-governmental organisations concerned with the impact of the European Union on alcohol policy in Member States

Starting with 9 member organisations in 1990, it now has 46 members from 12 EU States, 5 non EU States and 3 International Organisations with members in 26 European countries

Brief Description of Eurocare: Brief Description of Eurocare:

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Eurocare promotes the implementation of evidence based alcohol policy and provides support to its member organizations

Key publications include: Alcohol problems and the family, 1998 The beverage alcohol industry’s social

aspects organizations: A public health warning, 2002

Drinking and driving in Europe, 2003

Brief Description of Eurocare: Brief Description of Eurocare:

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Eurocare will be implementing a 3 year European Commission funded project (Alcohol Policy Network in the Context of a larger Europe: Bridging the Gap): Creating an alcohol policy network in 27 European Member

States and applicant countries, Norway and Switzerland Preparing a report on alcohol in Europe Preparing an advocacy training manual Convening a European conference, Bridging the Gap,

Warsaw, Poland, 16-19 June 2004 Convening two summer advocacy schools, Slovenia 2005

and Catalonia 2006.

Brief Description of Eurocare: Brief Description of Eurocare:

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These are net costs, accounting for heart disease

They do not include social harms

They do not include financial costs

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At the community level:

Drinking and driving

Intoxication

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WHO Region % dependent on alcohol

North and Central Africa 0.7

Southern Africa 1.6

North America 5.1

Latin America 3.5

South America 3.2

Middle East 0.0

Western Asia 0.0

Western Europe 3.4

Central Europe 0.8

Caucasus and Central Asia 0.2

Former Soviet Union 4.8

South-East Asia 0.4

Indian sub-continent 0.8

Australasia and Japan 2.1

Western Pacific, including China 0.9

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Towards a solution

It is not a complicated message

It is not don’t smoke,

But it is less is better

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Alcohol is NOT an ordinary commodity

The science for alcohol policy is made

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Healthy Public Policy:

Taxation

Bans on advertising and marketing

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Strengthening Community Action:

Drink driving

Educational and prevention programmes

Manage availability

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Helping individuals:

Brief interventions in primary care

Treatment for dependence

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What can WHO (and its MS) do?

Match resources to the size of the problem

The purpose of alcohol policy is to reduce the harm done by alcohol. The greater the harm, the greater the need for policy.

4% of GBD; 5th in list of risk factors

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What can WHO (and its MS) do?

There is a strong team

But, it seems divided and unclear at present

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What can WHO (and its MS) do?

Strong Regional Offices

Seems a posteriority rather than a priority

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What can WHO (and its MS) do?

Need a simple metric (like a billion deaths from smoking)

Globally, every drinker loses on average 11 days of healthy life per year.

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What can WHO (and its MS) do?

Do we need a FCAC?

Or some other mechanism to mobilize action?

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What can WHO (and its MS) do?

Make the science clear

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What can WHO (and its MS) do?

Calculate the economic burden

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What can WHO (and its MS) do?

Estimate the social burden

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What can WHO (and its MS) do?

Get some powerful partners

(?World Bank)

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What can WHO (and its MS) do?

In dealing with the alcohol industry, ENSURE that WHO sticks to its guidelines

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What can WHO (and its MS) do?

Disseminate and implement these guidelines throughout:

The organization

The Regional Offices

The Collaborating centres

The country offices

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What can WHO (and its MS) do?

The industry argues that they have a place at the policy table.

They don’t.

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What can WHO (and its MS) do?

The industry argues that they are a public health body.

They are not.

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What can WHO (and its MS) do?

Don’t be duped by the alcohol industry and their social aspects organizations.

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Effective policyEffective policy

Ineffective policyIneffective policy

OpposedOpposed by social by social aspects organizationsaspects organizations

SupportedSupported by social by social aspects organizationsaspects organizations

Taxation Negative elasticities between price of alcohol and cirrhosis, fatal and non-fatal traffic accidents and intentional injuries (as price goes up, harm goes down)1

Takes the view that taxation has no impact on alcohol-related harm; takes the view that the solution to the problem of misuse does not lie in restrictions which penalize everyone for the mistakes of a minority3

Legal drinking age Increased drinking ages reduce traffic fatalities; reduced drinking ages lead to increases in assaults2

Suggests that there is no consensus as to whether or not minimal drinking ages are desirable4 ; opposed to increasing legal drinking ages believing that it does not address those who abuse the product3

Outlet density Increased outlet density associated with traffic accidents, assaults and liver cirrhosis2

Opposed to limiting outlet density believing that it does not address those who abuse the product3

Days and Hours of sale Closure of stores associated with reduced alcohol related violence; extended trading hours associated with increases in road traffic accidents and alcohol-related violence2

Believes that programmes that restrict days and hours of sale are ineffective and do not go to the heart of the problem of alcohol-related violence; opposed to restricting days and hours of sale believing that they do not address those who abuse the product3

Proof of age schemes Evidence for the impact of policy measures such as proof of age schemes is not available

Supports campaigns against underage access, such as proof of age schemes5

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Price and the availability of alcoholPrice and the availability of alcohol

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Effective policyEffective policy

Ineffective policyIneffective policy

OpposedOpposed by social by social aspects organizationsaspects organizations

SupportedSupported by social by social aspects aspects

organizationsorganizations

Physical environment Changing the physical environment of drinking places reduces alcohol related violence1

Takes the position that the vast majority of drinking episodes do not involve violence, and most violence does not involve drinking, but recognizes that in some individuals and groups, a pattern of behaviour may include both abusive drinking and violence; offers no concrete proposals2 Social environment Decreasing the

permissiveness of the environment (better staff control; less discount drinks) reduces alcohol-related violence1

Server training with legal sanctions Responsible server programs supported by legal sanctions reduce harms from intoxication1

Opposed to legal sanctions; accepts that server training leads to a reduction in licensee liability for damages resulting from illegal service by trained servers3

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Server training without legal sanctions Responsible server programs not supported by legal sanctions do not reduce harms from intoxication1

Trains servers not to sell to underage drinkers, but without legal sanctions4

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Creating safer drinking environmentsCreating safer drinking environments

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Effective policyEffective policy

Ineffective policyIneffective policy

OpposedOpposed by social by social aspects organizationsaspects organizations

SupportedSupported by social by social aspects organizationsaspects organizations

Community action based on both environmental and educational approaches Comprehensive locally based community prevention programs have led to 10% reductions in alcohol involved car crashes, 25% reductions in fatal crashes and 43% reductions in alcohol related violence1

Opposed to environmental approaches, believing that they do not address those who abuse the product.

Locally based community prevention programs based only on educational approaches Have limited or no effect1

Describes school based alcohol education, and drink driving education programmes as community based programmes6

Legal restrictions Although difficult to evaluate, there is evidence for a link between advertising and consumption at individual and aggregate level; econometric analysis suggest that advertising restrictions reduce motor vehicle fatalities2

Takes the view that there is insufficient evidence to support an association between advertising and levels or patterns of drinking; opposed to legislative marketing restrictions

Alcohol education in schools In general no, or very limited impact on use of alcohol; no evidence for an impact on harm3

Promotes and funds school based educational programme, in which “the pleasure of drinking responsibly is part of a balanced lifestyle” 7

Public education campaigns In general no, or very limited impact on use of alcohol; no evidence for an impact on harm4

Stresses the importance of educational programmes as the key policy choice to reduce alcohol-related harm6

Self-regulation Considerable evidence that self regulatory codes are not adhered to5;

The production and dissemination of self-regulatory codes a core area of work,8,9

X

X

Prevention and education programmesPrevention and education programmes

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Effective policyEffective policy

Ineffective policyIneffective policy

OpposedOpposed by social by social aspects organizationsaspects organizations

SupportedSupported by social by social aspects organizationsaspects organizations

Legal drinking age Increased drinking age in US reduced traffic accidents by 5%-28%1

Suggests that there is no consensus as to whether or not minimal drinking ages are desirable2; opposed to increasing legal drinking ages believing that it does not address those who abuse the product (i.e. drink driving) 3

Regulating the conditions of sale Extending trading hours increases traffic accidents; targeted programmes at high risk premises reduce accidents1

Believes that programmes that restrict days and hours of sale are ineffective and do not go to the heart of the problem of alcohol-related accidents; opposed to restricting days and hours of sale believing that they do not address those who abuse the product (i.e. drink driving)3

Random breath testing High visibility can reduce deaths by between one third and one half1

Generally opposed to high visibility random breath testing4

Reducing legal BAC limit Reduces drink driving and fatalities across all levels of BAC1

Opposed to any reductions in legal BAC limits5

Public education campaigns No evidence for a beneficial effect on alcohol-related crashes1

Believes that educational programmes are the core component of drink driving programmes6

Interventions by servers, hosts and peers Ineffective, although increased protection of drinking peers1

Works with the hotel, restaurant, cafe and bar sectors to develop anti-drink driving initiatives3

Alternative transportation programmes Limited evidence suggests ineffective1

Alternative transportation programmes (designated river campaigns) are priority projects6

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X

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Drink driving programmesDrink driving programmes

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What can WHO (and its MS) do?

There cannot be common ground on drinking and driving

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Eurocare recommendation:

6. Because of limited evidence for their effectiveness in reducing drinking and driving, public education efforts to persuade drinkers not to drive after drinking, programmes to encourage servers to prevent intoxicated individuals from driving, and organized efforts to make provisions for alternative transportation should not be the main cornerstones of drinking and driving policy.

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What can WHO (and its MS) do?

There should be no discussion on self-regulation

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It serves the needs of the industry

The reality is based on complaints rather than compliance

The advertisements still go ahead anyway

There is no enforcement

It is not independent, and reflects the ‘intentions’ of the advertisers

Does not reflect the marketing to young people

We should not waste any more time on self-regulationWe should not waste any more time on self-regulation

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What can WHO (and its MS) do?

The Smirnoff day off speaks much louder to politicians than all the research

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What can WHO (and its MS) do?

Encourage litigation

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What can WHO (and its MS) do?Policy

Action Plans: Globally

Regionally

Country wide

Regional

Local

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What can WHO (and its MS) do?Community Action

Database of community programmes

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What can WHO (and its MS) do?Health sector

Be clear and consistent on nomenclature (ICD 10)

Promote brief interventions

Reorient health care

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What can the NGO sector do?

We are your friends;

But also your watchdog

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What can the NGO sector do?

Support you in any or all of the above

Promote and disseminate the science that empowers alcohol policy

Develop advocacy and promote advocacy skills

Monitor the alcohol industry

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What can the NGO sector do?

And do we write formally to the WHO after this consultation, or what?

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Thank you for your attention

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