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5th October 2016
01:18pm BST

#latergram Bretagne A photo posted by Louise Delage (@louise.delage) on
This Instagram account set up on August 1st, is actually fake and is the work of Addict Aide, an organisation established to help people concerned about alcohol addiction, either their own or someone else's. The campaign, entitled Like My Addiction, was put into practice in a bid to show that the signs of alcohol addiction can go unnoticed. It has been successful too for in the hours after the truth was revealed, Addict Aide received five times more traffic to its site that the usual figures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecRheslTlwE The below video gives a backstory to the campaign and Louise's large following, 56.5k to be exact, expressed shock at the real reason for the fictional Instagram posts. The campaign was conducted by Paris agency BETC with their creative director Stéphane Xiberras Paris explaining the approach to Ad Freak:Quand je pose en soirée ? A photo posted by Louise Delage (@louise.delage) on
"We were briefed on the difficulty of detecting the addiction of someone close to you—a friend, a child or a parent. "We thought an interesting way of showing it would be to create a person people would meet every day but whom we'd never suspect of being an addict, by setting up a fake Instagram account."It's important to note that posing for photos while drinking alcohol does not indicate that someone could be suffering from alcohol addiction but the campaign is an interesting one all the same. If you want to get information on alcohol addiction, you can get in touch with Alcohol Action Ireland on 01-8780610 or visit the website here.
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