Alcohol Awareness Week 2024 , 1-7 July 2024

Alcohol can sometimes play a centre-stage role in our lives. It’s promoted as we watch our favourite sports, advertised as we travel to work and strategically placed in our favourite films and TV shows. It’s there when we celebrate, commiserate and when we’re just trying to cope.

Yet alcohol is harming our health and wellbeing on a daily basis, from the quality of the sleep we’re getting, to our relationships with those we love. And each year, thousands of people experience long-term health problems as a result of the alcohol they drink or die from alcohol-related causes.

But alcohol never impacts people in isolation. Alcohol Awareness Week will explore exactly what we mean by ‘alcohol harm’ and challenge the stereotype of alcohol as an ‘individual’s problem’. 

With the right culture and policies in place, we can create an environment in which we are all better informed and better protected from the harm caused by alcohol. 

Resources and information

Help with alcohol or drug misuse (brighton-hove.gov.uk) 

Alcohol Change UK website, have a browse through their Fact sheets | Alcohol Change UK

Read the Alcohol Change Report AC-Lauch-report-online.pdf