Websites

• Mental Health in Later Life
  http://www.mhilli.org/index.html

Website set up by the Mental Health Foundation with useful links relating to alcohol and drug use among older people including links to further reading and other resources.                 

• Benzodiazepine Addiction, Withdrawal and Recovery
  www.benzo.org.uk

Site set up to specifically provide information on benzos, their use, misuse and withdrawal from them.

• The Institute of Alcohol Studies
  www.ias.org.uk
  

This organisation and site is designed to help people understand policy in relation to alcohol.  It currently has a factsheet ‘Alcohol and the Elderly’

• Alcohol Concern
  www.alcoholconcern.org.uk
  

At the top of the homepage click on ‘Help and Information’.  On the left there are some very useful menus including ‘Worried about drinking’, ‘Factsheets on alcohol’ (including ‘Alcohol and Older People’)