1991: Health for All, Target 17

Health for All is a policy document of the World Health Organisation (WHO) for the European Region, signed by 43 member countries. Target 17 stated that: “by the year 2000, the health-damaging consumption of dependence-producing substances such as alcohol, tobacco and psychoactive drugs should have been significantly reduced in all member states…This target can be achieved if well balanced policies and programmes in regard to the consumption and production of these substances are implemented at all levels and in different sectors…to reduce alcohol consumption by 25% with particular attention to reducing harmful use”.

Resolution of the Council and of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, of 29 May 1986, on alcohol abuse.





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