England is worst in the world for child alcohol consumption. The Church must wake up
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Emma Heath2024-05-08T10:12:00
Children in England are more likely to have drunk alcohol than those in any other country. Emma Heath says the news should be a wake up call to churches who are contributing to an unhealthy culture around alcohol
England has the worst rate of child alcohol consumption in the world.
That’s according to a new report by the World Health Organisation, which shows more than half of children had drunk alcohol by age 13.
I believe we are living in a culture of denial around the serious impact that alcohol is having. Having lived a life of alcohol abuse myself, I am now running a national Christian charity upskilling teams to work in the area of addiction. But it takes a wake up call to really see what is going on around us, and I had just that jolt when I was invited to speak at a local school in Dorset.
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