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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a great deal of attention has been paid in recent years to the problem of addiction with regard to drug use. Paradoxically, with regard to abusive consumption of alcohol and alcohol dependency, little or nothing has been done. It is also a paradox that the real situation is very far removed from what is normally thought to be the case. Alcohol dependency is a much more widespread and deep-rooted problem in social and public health terms, with statistics in many countries showing that around 10% of the population could be classed as suffering from alcoholism. This is one of the unspoken tragedies of our times – society appears to be repeating the denial that is one of the defining features of alcoholism and other forms of drug addiction and, as is well known, is one of the major obstacles to recovery for those affected. The report and this recommendation counter the indifferent approach we have seen in the past and therefore deserve our congratulations and our support. They rightly focus on children and adolescents in particular. On the one hand, it is a known fact that alcohol consumption amongst the young has increased markedly and today we are even seeing cases of juvenile alcoholism, which was practically unknown or extremely rare a few decades ago. On the other hand, health education and information programmes targeting young people will, in the long term, also have a positive impact on the overall prevention of alcoholism. Many older alcoholism sufferers today are from generations that were unaware, that thought that there was no problem because things had always been that way. What we need to do now is to provide information, especially for young people. We must inform, warn, monitor, anticipate and prevent a human and social disaster. As a matter of fact, we are today facing new challenges, with a situation in which the market is swamped with products that purport to be harmless, such as alcoholic cool drinks or synthetic drinks that are specifically targeted at the youngest drinkers, which could represent the start of their alcohol abuse and, consequently, the door to the abyss, the danger of which we must expose. We sincerely hope that this recommendation will succeed and that it will be stringently monitored in all Member States."@en1
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