Alcohol Abuse : Topmost Public Health Concern

We have established a sustainable long-term process by educating a significant number of healthcare providers and employees, and implemented a method for screenings and referrals. The hazardous and harmful use of alcohol has now become one of the most important risks to health.

It is the leading risk factor in developing countries with high mortality rates and ranks third in developed countries. While alcohol use is deeply embedded in many societies, recent years have seen changes in drinking patterns across the globe: rates of consumption, drinking to excess among the general population and heavy episodic drinking among young people are on the rise in many countries.

Health problems associated with alcohol consumption have reached alarming levels, and alcohol use contributes to a wide range of diseases, health conditions and high-risk behaviors, from mental disorders and road traffic injuries, to liver diseases and unsafe sexual behavior.

The issue of harmful use of alcohol, including:

• Gathering and sharing scientific information on alcohol consumption and related public health problems
• Preparing research and policy initiatives and recommendations for effective policies and interventions
• Providing support to Member States in monitoring alcohol-related harm and implementing effective strategies and promoting identification and management of alcohol-use disorders in primary health care.

Thus alcohol consumption has become the topmost Health concern of young as well as adults. The researches are being done to give better alcohol treatment and update the people with the updated alcoholic stats and by campaigning in the public places and schools. To wind up alcohol is taking so many lives' every year so to save you're loved be a part of the ant alcohol movement.