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A solicitor has successfully argued that alcohol-related offences should be solved by providing access to alcohol treatment, rather than imposing legal restrictions on individuals.

According to reports in the Whitehaven News, a Cumbria man risked being given an Asbo after he was found drunk in public. He had recently been released from prison having served a short sentence for shoplifting and showing a record of drink-related offences.

Solicitor Neil Pilling last month contended that as a chronic alcoholic, his client required access to treatment and that proposing an Asbo showed: "astonishing and total lack of understanding of the disease by the police", adding he needed "medical treatment, not an anti-social behaviour order. That's not going to work."

Mr Pilling's argument saw his client instead having to pay a fine, after the solicitor convinced the court that his client would be seeking the medical treatment that he needed.

In 2004, a spokeswoman for Alcohol Concern told the Guardian that the charity had concerns about Asbos being thought of as a long-term answer to alcohol-related crime.

She told the paper that there needed to be more cooperation between health services, local councils, police and the courts.

Article published on 12/02/2008 by DryOutNow.com

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