About ALAC
- ALAC’s vision and mission are outlined here with links to our corporate documents that describe how we are working to achieve our mission.
  
  Corporate documents and reports can be downloaded from here.You will find information about ALAC and its structure. Council members and Senior management are profiled.
- Who We Are
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Activities & Services
- The Activities & Services section of the website has information about what ALAC is up to.
  
  This is where you can find out what we are working on and how we achieve our goals.
- Priority Population Action Plans
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- Community Action
- Support for Requirements of Sale and Supply
- Policy Advice & Research
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Alcohol & You
- Want to know if your drinking is okay? Or are you considering making some changes to your drinking but want to know more? Do you know exactly how big a standard drink is?
  
  Play the online games in the section to find out. Find out all about your relationship with alcohol here...
- Is Your Drinking Okay?
- What's in a Standard Drink?
- Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking Advice
- Your Body & Alcohol
- How to Access Treatment
- How to Be Safer
- The Law & You
- Drinking & Driving
Legislation & Policy
- Check out this section for NZ legislation and local strategies and polices relating to alcohol.
- Sale of Liquor Act
- Planning & Resource Management Act
- Alcoholism & Drug Addiction Act
- Alcohol Bans
- Alcohol Strategies & Policies
- Liquor Licences
- Liquor Licensing Authority Decisions
- Customs
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- Signage Resources for Vendors
- Host Responsibility
Research & Resources
- This is the ALAC research and resources section. This is where you can find alcohol statistics and researched topics.
  
  ALAC has two blogs, a research blog and our general blog. Take a look at some of the interesting conversations that are happening here.
- Latest Resources
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- Research Blog
- NZ Statistics

ALAC Policies

ALAC provides evidence-based policy advice. Click on the links below to access pdfs of these polices.

Policy: Ready-To-Drinks (RTDs) (pdf 222KB)
ALAC's policy statement on RTDs. Released September 2008

Policy: Blood Alcohol Content Limit (pdf 134KB)
ALAC's policy statement on New Zealand's Blood Alcohol Content Limit.Released: September 2008

Policy: Definition of Early Intervention (pdf 143KB)

ALAC's definition of early intervention, including an exploration of the relationship between early and brief intervention. Released 2004.

Policy: Regulation of the Drinking of Alcohol in Public Places (pdf 29KB)

Problematic public drinking can lead to vandalism, negative impacts on businesses, noise, violence and disorder. Although some of these problems can be reduced using bylaws, regulating public drinking can sometimes add new problems, including displacement caused by moving drinkers on particularly for young people. Released 2002.

Policy: Upper Limits for Responsible Drinking (pdf 58KB)

ALAC has developed a set of suggested 'safer drinking levels' for both men and women. This is a general guide, to help people establish whether they are drinking safely in a given situation. Released 2002.

Policy: The Minimum Legal Age for Purchasing Alcohol (pdf 172KB)

Background to the lowering of the purchase age to 18 in 1999, and why ALAC would support the age being raised again to 20. Released 2002.