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Alcohol policies in industrial nations: Recent trends and alternative approaches

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Alcohol consumption and many alcohol-related problems have increased in most industrialized countries in the postwar period. The main societal responses have been increases in the treatment response to alcohol problems and in public and school education efforts. In the present era of fiscal crisis, there is also a trend toward punitive controls of the individual drinker. Potential policy alternatives should be broadened to include environmental protections for and from drunkenness, and a reconsideration of alcohol control strategies. Recent studies have shown that in some circumstances such laws have strong effects.

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Room, R. Alcohol policies in industrial nations: Recent trends and alternative approaches. J Primary Prevent 4, 189–198 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01324440

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