Will this be one of your – good – resolutions for 2025? For its fifth French edition, Dry January or The January Challenge is taking place, once again, without the support of public authorities. Launched in 2013 in the United Kingdom by the Alcohol Change UK association and, since 2020, in France, this operation aims to encourage the population to take a one-month break and question their consumption and its relationship to alcohol. 'alcohol. How many glasses do I drink per day? For what ? How do I deal with social pressure to consume? Etc.
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When launched in France at the end of 2019, the State was initially supposed to support the operation. “To everyone's surprise, only a few months before the launch of this campaign, we were told that everything was canceledsays researcher Mickael Naassila, president of the French Society of Alcoholology, in his book, which comes out on January 2, I stop drinking without becoming boring (Solar, 224 pages, 18,90 euros). In question, a “Jupiterian” decision. (…) While Public Health France had prepared a variation of this operation, the government stopped it, leaving the associative actors to carry out the system alone. »
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