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Alcohol Action Ireland Research Paper

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Department of Social Science
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Student Name(s): Hazel Tully

Student I.D. No(s): s00129002

Module Title: Policy, Practice and Evidence

Assignment Title: Alcohol Action Ireland

Number of Words: 761

Name of Tutor(s): Dr John Pender and Ms Majella Mulkeen

I/we certify that the attached material is my/our original work. I/we declare that no other person’s work has been used without due acknowledgement. Except where I/we have clearly stated that I/we have used some of this material elsewhere, it has not been presented by me/us for examination in any other course or unit at this or any other institution.

________Hazel Tully_____________ _______09/10/2014_____________
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o The Policy and Advocacy Officer is Catherine Keane. o The Administrator is Samantha Byrne.
(Alcohol Action Ireland)

(B)
• Alcohol Action Ireland is not an ‘anti-alcohol’ charity. Its aim is to prevent the harm that regularly results after alcohol consumption, to the person themselves and to those around them i.e. children, family, businesses and communities as a whole.
• This organisation aims to encourage citizens to be aware of the alcohol related harm occurring in society, and to challenge this issue. (Eurocare)
To achieve this they provide information on alcohol related issues in order to create awareness, and creating policies intended to reduce the alcohol related harm.
• They take a public health approach in dealing with alcohol related harm. This approach consists of gathering relevant information, conducting research, developing interventions and implementing these interventions. (World Health Organisation)

(C)
• The most recent work from Alcohol Action Ireland was their contribution to the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill. This bill details measures to reduce alcohol consumption and, in turn, alcohol related harm. These measures include the health labelling of alcohol, regulation in regards to the marketing and advertising of alcohol, the introduction of minimum unit pricing for alcohol, and regulation of the involvement of alcoholic products used in sports sponsorship. (Alcohol Action …show more content…

• The measures contained in the bill came from recommendations from the Steering Group Report on the National Substance Misuse Strategy, which was published in February of 2012. Alcohol Action Ireland had an input into this report via their director Fiona Ryan who is also member of the Steering

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