I reiterate the comment I made earlier that the best way to treat alcohol addiction and dependency is to treat it like a mental health illness, because that is what it is. The best way to do that is to remove the stigma and put more money into mental health, but in trying to overcome the stigma, we need to ensure that there is parity between mental and physical health. If we treat the mental health issue, we treat the alcohol issue. We cannot do one without the other. Will the Minister commit today to going some way towards doing that and to putting more money into mental health to deal with this?
Health and Care Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Christian Wakeford
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 22 November 2021.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Health and Care Bill.
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