Definition: A.N.P.A.A.

National Association for Alcohol and Addiction Prevention

Its objectives:

• To develop a comprehensive strategy in all areas to prevent the risks and consequences associated with alcohol consumption and, in view of the growing use of other psychoactive substances often linked to alcohol consumption, to participate in the prevention of other forms of drug addiction.
• To reduce the risks of social maladjustment inherent in alcohol consumption, among both young people and adults.
• To promote access to care, therapeutic follow-up and reintegration for anyone experiencing difficulties with alcohol.
• Promote the formation of relay groups in all settings to enable everyone to take ownership of the preventive approach.
• Create legal and socio-economic conditions that promote autonomy, opportunities for expression and fulfilment for everyone through a better quality of life and respect for the individual.
• Play a promotional and innovative role in alcohol studies

Addictology is the study of addictions, i.e. physiological and psychological dependence on a substance or behaviour.

This emerging field of research aims to understand, within a common framework, the psychopathologies that lead to dependency (drug addiction, pathological gambling, alcoholism, smoking, but also anorexia, bulimia, etc.).

Addiction specialists are doctors who specialise in this field.

Link to the official website:

http://internet.anpaa.asso.fr/index_flash.html

Rant:

Read on the blog of our Swiss member Jacques Perrin http://www.cavesa.ch/blog/

Who would dare to say that youth rhymes with distress, drunkenness, weakness, softness, police brutality, and not with tenderness, caresses, joy or boldness?

The grey eminences of the ANPAA have looked into the matter and made their decision. Learnedly. With the contrition of those who know that the hour is grave, that action must be taken to stem the Dionysian temptations.

Young people? An endangered species that must be protected. From themselves and from the evil world of wine.

The ANPAA? This acronym stands for the very official Association Nationale de Prévention en Alcoologie et Addictologie (National Association for the Prevention of Alcoholism and Addiction), a French organisation made up of virtuous hygienists, armed with principles and good intentions.

Those who, as everyone knows, create hell on earth.

I will spare you the reading of their Moral Report following their last General Assembly.

However, I remain in awe of their audacity in convening and convening the "Estates General of Alcohol" and, above all, of the relevance of their programme, known as BMCM: "Drink less, it's better", directly linked to the WHO.

Fortunately, these talapoins of abstinence, these preventers of smoking and drinking in Switzerland, these traffickers in statistics, exist: what would we become without them, without their ukases, their code of conduct and their prescriptions? Should we be concerned with achieving happiness on our own?

I would suggest, however, that they take inspiration from the Fathers of the Church who, in the Middle Ages, came up with a neologism combining sobriety and drunkenness in order to combat the addiction of young monks, while not completely weaning them off the blood of Christ.

I could also encourage them to look at the world of wine through a lens other than the prism of fried whiting that serves as their spectacles. They might then understand that wine culture is a very effective defence against alcoholism, and that confusing two concepts as different as wine and spirits is either disingenuous or the result of a clouded mind.

"Drink better, drink less" is the real slogan that they haven't thought of.