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Alcohol: preventing harmful use in the community

  • Quality standard
  • Reference number: QS83
  • Published:  25 March 2015
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  • Quality statements
  • Quality statement 1: Using local crime and related trauma data
  • Quality statement 2: Under-age sales
  • Quality statement 3: Alcohol education
  • Quality statement 4: Schools and colleges involve parents, carers, children and young people
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  • About this quality standard

Update information

Minor changes since publication

August 2019: Changes have been made to align this quality standard with the updated NICE guideline on alcohol interventions in secondary and further education. Definitions and references have been updated for statements 3 and 4.

November 2018: Changes have been made to align this quality standard with the NICE guideline on alcohol-use disorders: prevention. The terminology has been updated to reflect the UK Chief Medical Officers' low risk drinking guidelines (2016), and links have been updated throughout.

December 2016: Data source updated for statement 3.


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