Alcohol Change UK is non-partisan and believes that action on alcohol harm requires cross-party support.
We have provided a response to the Conservative Party’s survey as part of their Policy Renewal Programme, to help shape the future of Conservative Party policy.
In our response, we highlighted that:
- Alcohol impacts our health and wellbeing in many different ways, and is a causal factor in more than 200 different diseases and injuries.
- There is a link between alcohol consumption and a wide range of health issues, from mental health issues to cancer.
- This link is present even when people are drinking within the Chief Medical Officers’ recommended ‘low risk’ drinking guidelines.
- Alcohol can cause problems across the social scale.
- The most effective and cost-effective ways to reduce alcohol harm are to increase its price, restrict its marketing, and reduce its availability.
