A common tactic used by industry to max profits is to shape public discourse and information environments, defining problems and solutions in their interest and undermining our health.

Read more: bit.ly/4edyFop

#NCDs #CDoH #Disinformation #Industryplaybook Eoin Kelleher

Blog re World Health Organization (WHO) report: 'Powerful industries are driving ill-health and premature mortality. Politicians, media and decision makers cannot claim not to know, not to understand the issue. Simply, they cannot deny the huge body of evidence before their eyes.'
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A new report by WHO/Europe spells out clearly how specific powerful industries - including #BigAlcohol - are driving ill-health and premature death across Europe

'Their main goals are to generate profit, maximize product sales and drive consumption'

iris.who.int/handle/10665/3…

'The increasingly sophisticated sponsorship tactics of the alcohol industry during #Pride pose a real threat to the health and well-being of the LGBTQ+ community.' Patricio Think Global Health

#Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈 #BigAlcohol
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☕️ SHAAP's latest media monitor is here 🥳

📰Read the latest #AlcoholNews and #AlcoholResearch from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and 🌍

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During Celebrating Families Week, one of our amazing family members shared their story with us. Read it here: sfad.org.uk/this-time-last…

Thank you to all our family members for sharing & helping others. We're here to support anyone affected by someone else’s alcohol or drug use. 💜

There are lots of things you can do to help ensure the next government makes ending #alcoholharm a priority.

🗳️Register to vote
📱Raise awareness of alcohol harm on your social channels
🗣️Speak with your local candidates

Find out more on our website: alcoholchange.org.uk/policy/general…

'Alcohol marketing has a 𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙖𝙡 role in young people's drinking.' - Professor David Jernigan.

Watch the full Explained film here: youtube.com/watch?v=cZ1Fgx…

Loved our 'Scotland with less booze' @GlasSciFest event - all academic talks should end with alcohol-free DJ set by Good Clean Fun ! Huge thanks to Amy Dr Karen Maxwell Beth Meadows GCU Engagement & wonderful audience Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs Alcohol Focus Scotland Kinder Stronger Better GCU Research Centre for Health (ReaCH)

Did you know that Kinder Stronger Better & GlasCouncilonAlcohol run an #LGBTI support group?

If you're #LGBTI & are looking for support around your own or someone else's #Alcohol use - why not come along to their #Pride 🏳️‍🌈 Coffee & Lunch Club?

#Pride Month

#TodayAtAFS we’re delivering our Enhanced #AlcoholAwareness training

Great mix of different sectors in attendance

Find out more or book a place on an upcoming training session ⬇️

alcohol-focus-scotland.org.uk/training/

'Government's can make evidence based decisions that reduce alcohol harm and we can still have a thriving hospitality sector.'🎙️

Dr Katherine Severi discusses the high cost of alcohol harm to England.

Listen to our latest podcast, links here: ias.org.uk/podcast/alcoho…

7000 people/day. 2.7 million people/year.

The number of needless deaths linked to just 4 industries in the WHO/Europe Region.

Tobacco, ultra-processed foods, fossil fuels, alcohol.

Our hard-hitting report, launched in Brussels with 🇧🇪 Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke 👇

Hearing from Beth Meadows on #AlcoholFree #Nightlife for #LGBTQI communities

Recognising importance of nightlife for some in #LGBTQI communities

#GlaSciFest #PrideMonth

They sell tobacco to our youth, market unhealthy products, and extract wealth from the very societies they are harming. Enough is enough.

Dr Hans Kluge’s Hans Kluge opening speech at launch of new WHO/Europe report on commercial health harms: bit.ly/4b5LKgG

#CDoH

At the SubstanceUse@gcu ‘Imagining Scotland with Less Booze’ event

What would that look like?

Safer and less violent maybe?

#GlaSciFest

At the #GlaSciFest event, ‘Imagining Scotland with less booze’ with SubstanceUse@gcu tonight!

Looking forward to some interesting presentations and chat!

Read our response to the WHO/Europe Report on 'Commercial determinants of noncommunicable diseases in the WHO European Region'

Exposing the wide ranging and damaging impact of #BigAlcohol in driving ill health and premature death

alcohol-focus-scotland.org.uk/news/news/afs-…

Really good Scottish example of using research to affect positive change in services for #LGBTI people

Well worth continuing to celebrate this ongoing work on #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈

Congratulations to Kinder Stronger Better GlasCouncilonAlcohol and SubstanceUse@gcu plus all other partners!

62% of North East adults are trying to limit alcohol consumption. It was also revealed that 82% of residents believe there is a necessity for health campaigns highlighting the dangers of alcohol consumption.
Coverage in the Northern Echo The Northern Echo
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