Alcohol Awareness Week talks in Blackburn (From Blackburn Citizen)
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Alcohol Awareness Week talks in Blackburn
8:00pm Wednesday 21st November 2012 in Blackburn
PEOPLE in East Lancashire are being encouraged to discuss their drinking habits during Alcohol Awareness Week.
The campaign, organised by Alcohol Concern and supported by Blackburn with Darwen Council and the Care Trust Plus, is called ‘It’s time to talk about drinking’.
It recognises that talking about drinking is something the British do but questions whether we are having the right kind of conversations.
During the week Blackburn with Darwen’s Alcohol and Drug Service on Regent Street, Blackburn, will be providing information to visitors about the dangers of alcohol abuse.
A series of awareness events will take place during the week including an alcohol support day on Friday at the Women’s Centre on Strawberry Bank, Blackburn.
It will run from 1pm until 3pm.
Director of public health for Blackburn with Darwen, Dominic Harrison, said: “Unfortunately the social problems alcohol causes are all around us, as well as the massive health impacts it can have.”
Visit yoursupportyourchoice.org.uk
Comments(9)
Deadwoodchamps
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8:45pm Wed 21 Nov 12
Half of the population drink to cope with life living in this excuse for a town!!
Sajdin
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8:49pm Wed 21 Nov 12
juanbbien
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8:53pm Wed 21 Nov 12
ste.g
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9:15pm Wed 21 Nov 12
mmmm i wonder if i could claim owt for that?
DEO VOLENTE
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9:35pm Wed 21 Nov 12
Mines a double old boy!
Chin Chin!
Bottoms Up!
Deus Vobiscum
ToffeeGuy
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12:06am Thu 22 Nov 12
Sajdin wrote:The virtue is in self-control not abstinence
Just ban alcohol
gmantello
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12:18am Thu 22 Nov 12
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woolywords
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1:42pm Thu 22 Nov 12
Article 27 states, We all have the right to our own way of life, and to enjoy the good things that science and learning bring. Your incessant bleatings about alcohol are enough to drive a man to drink!
There are more fat people wobbling around this town than are drunkards, so I suggest that you stand outside the many supermarkets having a dig at them for a change and leave me and mine alone.
Everytime you go in a supermarket nowadays the aisles are cluttered with people gimping about on scaffolding trying to support their manifest obesity.. do you not see them?
Or is more a case that you would sooner have a dig at those so down trodden in life that their only solace is the oblivion of alcohol?
If this is the only cause that you see worth championing then I feel sad for you. Why not call for a decent working wage for people, so that their spirits are lifted beyond the demon drink. You would rally more to your cause than the morally bankrupt bible-bashing few that circle your banner at present.
trajan says...
8:20pm Wed 21 Nov 12