Alcohol and drugs

Abstract

In 2018, the WHO released the SAFER initiative, designed to reinforce alcohol availability restrictions, advance and expand measures to regulate driving while under the influence, facilitate prevention through the timely detection of alcohol abuse, have health professionals available to support brief interventions that have proven beneficial for prevention, offer affordable, appropriate treatment, enforce comprehensive bans or restrictions on alcohol advertising, sponsorship and promotion and lastly increase alcohol prices through excise duties and pricing policies. If governments and civil society implement this global, intersectoral, integral initiative, they will reduce alcohol-abuse related problems. Achievements in each area will benefit the entire community