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Constituency Week
Conciliation Committee
02.02.2010
12:30 - 14:30
The Social Cost of Alcohol: Passive Drinking
Eurocare
Elmgren House, 1 The Quay
PE27 5AR Cambridgeshire
Phone: +44 1480 466766
Fax: +44 1480 497583
Email: info@eurocare.org
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MEP Anna Hedh
60, rue Wiertz
B-1047 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: +44 1480 466766
Fax: +32 2 28 49527
Email: anna.hedh@europarl.europa.eu
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12:30 - 14:30
The Social Cost of Alcohol: Passive Drinking
Eurocare
Elmgren House, 1 The Quay
PE27 5AR Cambridgeshire
Phone: +44 1480 466766
Fax: +44 1480 497583
Email: info@eurocare.org
Link to the organizer
MEP Anna Hedh
60, rue Wiertz
B-1047 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: +44 1480 466766
Fax: +32 2 28 49527
Email: anna.hedh@europarl.europa.eu
Link to the organizer
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Food & Consumer Protection
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European Parliament, ASP 3G3
Brussels
Brussels
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Drinking alcohol is a deeply ingrained part of the European society; each year, the average intake per adult is equivalent to 1,400 small beers (11 litres of pure alcohol).
The consequences of drinking go far beyond the individual drinker’s health and well-being. They include acts of drunken violence, vandalism, sexual assault, road accidents, harm to the unborn fetus, child abuse, and a huge health burden carried by both the National Health Systems and friends and family who care for those damaged by alcohol.
Each year in Europe, alcohol causes:
• Some 50% of all violent crime to the person
• Some 40% of all domestic violence
• 2,000 homicides (4 in 10 of all murders)
• 10,000 deaths in drink-driving accidents for people other than the drink-driver
• 5 million people born with mental disorders and birth defects because of their mothers’ drinking
• 16% of all child abuse / neglect
• 5-9 million children living in families adversely affected by alcohol
This meeting will be a unique opportunity to hear the testimonies of experts and professionals who have firsthand experience of these problems through their work.
The consequences of drinking go far beyond the individual drinker’s health and well-being. They include acts of drunken violence, vandalism, sexual assault, road accidents, harm to the unborn fetus, child abuse, and a huge health burden carried by both the National Health Systems and friends and family who care for those damaged by alcohol.
Each year in Europe, alcohol causes:
• Some 50% of all violent crime to the person
• Some 40% of all domestic violence
• 2,000 homicides (4 in 10 of all murders)
• 10,000 deaths in drink-driving accidents for people other than the drink-driver
• 5 million people born with mental disorders and birth defects because of their mothers’ drinking
• 16% of all child abuse / neglect
• 5-9 million children living in families adversely affected by alcohol
This meeting will be a unique opportunity to hear the testimonies of experts and professionals who have firsthand experience of these problems through their work.
Infos
Vojtech Eksler (ETSC: European Transport Safety Council); Mira Roine (ENCARE); Hans Olav Fekjær (Actis)
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