New guidance for older people at risk of the effects of alcohol and substance misuse

New guidelines have been released by the Royal College of Psychiatrists that aim to reduce the current threat of alcohol related brain damage to older people and the rate of suicide among this age group. The post-war baby boom generation reaped the benefits of a new NHS and the plentiful food supplies afforded by the Common Market. In the first few decades after the Second World War, consumerism flourished and people were wealthier and healthier than ever before. Now, having experienced the swinging sixties, the economic changes of the seventies and the technology explosion of the nineties, an increasing number of