According to national studies, 1 in 3 men and 1 in 6 women are drinking at harmful levels. This can result in chronic and acute ill health caused by alcohol, alcohol-related accidents and hospital admissions.
Evidence has shown that if consistently implemented, providing simple alcohol advice would result in 250,000 men and 67,500 women reducing their drinking levels from hazardous and harmful to low risk each year.
The overall goal of Alcohol IBA is to enable the learner to ‘employ techniques to help individuals adopt sensible drinking behaviour’ as set out in competence AH10 of the Drugs and Alcohol National Occupational Standards (DANOS).
It is split into five sessions of e-learning:
For more information and to view the e-learning visit www.alcohollearningcentre.org/eLearning/IBA
