Home Office minister Vernon Coaker visited Turning Point's Acaps service in Brixton to get young people's views on the Safe, Sensible, Social document, published last week.
This aims to take forward the Government's 2004 Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy, and has a strong focus on under-18s, especially 11- to 15-year-olds.
But young service users said the strategy does not go far enough, and called for super-markets and off-licences to be more regulated in their supply of alcohol to teenagers, and for better alcohol education.
John Driscoll, a 23-year-old Acaps user, said: "The strategy is not going far enough and the 24-hour drinking is making it worse for drinkers."
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