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Drinking at the last chance saloon

BMJ 2010; 340 doi: 10.1136/bmj.c394 (Published 20 January 2010)
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  1. Fiona Godlee, editor, BMJ
  1. fgodlee{at}bmj.com

    Distinguished voices are lining up behind England’s chief medical officer Liam Donaldson in support of a minimum price for alcohol (BMJ 2009;338:b1124, doi:10.1136/bmj.b1124). The BMA and the Royal College of Physicians have made a good case (BMJ 2009;339:b2714, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2714 and BMJ 2010;340:c80, doi:10.1136/bmj.c80), and this week they are joined by the combined weight of the Faculty of Public Health and the Royal Society for Public Health (doi:10.1136/bmj.c342). These two bodies list a minimum price for alcohol among 12 policy changes that will save many lives and relieve pressure on the NHS. As the faculty’s president Alan Maryon-Davies says, in lean times such action is all the more essential. …

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