Out of sight, out of mind: Australia's alcohol guidelines

• Date:

  21 February 2012

• Location:

  Melbourne, Victoria

• Category:

  Possibility of Indigenous content

Overview

Drug and Alcohol Review is focusing its March edition on the National Health and Medical Research Council Guidelines to Reduce Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol (the Guidelines). To coincide with the release, FARE, the Drug and Alcohol Review, and the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research (CAPR) will host a special forum to explore the role of the guidelines in reducing risky drinking in Australia.

The forum will explore:

• the role of the guidelines in promoting messages around alcohol consumption
• the work being done to promote the guidelines at a national and local level
• the role of the guidelines in increasing awareness of the harms associated with risky drinking among the general public.

The forum will present new research on the awareness of the Guidelines by Australians, and the ability of the Guidelines to influence perceptions. The forum will involve representatives from the Department of Health and Ageing, the Australian National Preventive Health Agency, and a range of public health organisations including:

• Professor Robin Room, Editor-in-Chief of Drug and Alcohol Review and Director of CAPR
• Dr Lisa Studdert, Australian National Preventive Health Agency
• Mr Michael Livingston, CAPR
• Winthrop Research Professor Carol Bower, Senior Principal Research Fellow, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
• Mr Scott Wilson, Director, Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council, South Australia

The morning will finish with a panel discussion to critically examine the value of the Guidelines in communicating information about alcohol to the general public, and what these messages should be.

RSVP by Wednesday 29 February 2012.

Contacts

Email: glenis.thomas@fare.org.au

Links

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