Alcohol Control and Public Health

Room, Robin

doi:10.1146/annurev.pu.05.050184.001453

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“…It is by now well established that public policies on alcohol--including controls on availability, tax and price policies and policies on the handling of alcohol-related problems--can affect the overali rate of alcohol-related problems in a society [1,2]. Policy-making on alcohol depends to a considerable degree, however, on public opinion about appropriate alcohol policies.…”

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Trends in public opinion about alcohol policy initiatives in Ontario and the US 1989‐91

Room¹,

Giesbracht²,

Graves

et al. 1995

Drug and Alcohol Review

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Trends in public opinion about 11 possible alcohol policy initiatives are analysed in probability surveys of adults in the United States and in Ontario in 1989, 1990 and 1991. In both sites, public opinion is fairly conservative on alcohol policies, with majorities favoring either the status quo or decreased availability on such dimensions as tax levels, opening hours, sale of alcoholic beverages in corner stores and the minimum legal drinking age. Between 1989 and 1991, the most substantial net change in attitudes was in favor of warning labels in Ontario, although it was in the United States and not in Canada that warning labels were introduced after the 1989 surveys. For some other alcohol policies, public support for restrictions tended to decline in Ontario but not in the United States. In logistic regressions predicting attitudes on each policy with gender, age, education, drinking pattern, study site and year of study, the strong and consistent secular trend for support for warning labels held up; the only other significant and consistent secular trend was against increased efforts to prevent drunken customers being served. Since public support for alcohol controls is crucial to their effectiveness and long-term viability, regular tracking of public opinion on them is needed, along with efforts to increase their public understanding and support.

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Trends in public opinion about alcohol policy initiatives in Ontario and the US 1989‐91

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Giesbracht²,

Graves

et al. 1995

Drug and Alcohol Review

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“…As shown in Table 1, respondents in the study provided strong support for the disaggregated alcohol-related problems framework, or the notion that drinkers can experience a wide range of problems related to alcohol use that do not stem from alcohol addiction [13]. When defining alcohol problems, three-quarters of respondents described a range of negative consequences experienced by drinkers or their families.…”

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“…As Room [13] noted, a 1979 report to Congress stated that “alcohol problems in the general population do not seem to form a coherent pattern. The problems are too diffuse to be described as part of a single concept of alcohol addiction” (p. 62).…”

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“…In contrast, traditional public health models [8,13,14] prioritize the roles of alcohol beverage availability, distribution, sales and marketing, and consumption as the key factors in determining levels of alcohol-related problems within the society. The key levers for reducing or preventing alcohol-related problems in these models are regulating the sales and distribution of alcohol (e.g., through price controls, restrictions on sales venues and hours) and limiting the demand for it (e.g., through curtailing advertising).…”

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Community Mobilization and the Framing of Alcohol-Related Problems

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2010

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The goal of this study was to describe how activists engaged in campaigns to change alcohol policies in inner city areas framed alcohol problems, and whether or not their frameworks reflected major models used in the field, such as the alcoholism as a disease model, an alcohol problems perspective, or a public health approach to alcohol problems. The findings showed that activists’ models shared some aspects with dominant approaches which tend to focus on individuals and to a lesser extent on regulating alcohol marketing and sales. However, activists’ models differed in significant ways by focusing on community level problems with alcohol; on problems with social norms regarding alcohol use; and on the relationship of alcohol use to illicit drugs.

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“…Alternative measures of alcohol and drug use and dependence, moreover, were not immune from reporting divergent trend results (see Harrison, 1992;Rouse, 1996;Weisner, Greenfield, & Room, 1995). By the 1980s, alcohol epidemiologists were in any case shifting ground, focusing more attention on aggregate alcohol consumption's relationships to a variety of health and social ills (Room, 1984). Testing Alexander's theory by means of cross-national or crosscultural comparisons offers no safe haven either, because the meanings of dependence and addiction concepts vary from culture to culture (Room, 2003;Schmidt and Room, 1999; also see Hasin et al, 1997, for a contrasting view).…”

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Ron Roizen on Bruce Alexander's “Addiction: The Urgent Need for a Paradigm Shift” A Measurement Nightmare

Roizen

2012

Substance Use & Misuse

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Alcohol Control and Public Health

Cited by 109 publications

References 49 publications

Trends in public opinion about alcohol policy initiatives in Ontario and the US 1989‐91

Trends in public opinion about alcohol policy initiatives in Ontario and the US 1989‐91

Community Mobilization and the Framing of Alcohol-Related Problems

Ron Roizen on Bruce Alexander's “Addiction: The Urgent Need for a Paradigm Shift” A Measurement Nightmare

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