The project will ask regional forums to discuss the subject. It was set up by Alcohol Concern, Turning Point and London Drug & Alcohol Network.
Research from the forums will be used to lobby the Government's Strategy Unit, which is devising an alcohol harm reduction strategy for 2003.
Geethika Jayatilaka, director of policy and public affairs at Alcohol Concern, said: "This will ensure that the need for tackling alcohol misuse and the consequences remains a priority."
According to research from the Royal College of Physicians in 2001, alcohol misuse costs the NHS up to 3 billion a year.
www.alcoholconcern.org.uk
www.turning-point.co.uk
www.ldan.org.uk.
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