Effects of prices, civil and criminal sanctions, and law enforcement on alcohol-related mortality.

Sloan, Frank A.; Reilly, Bridget A.; Schenzler, Christoph

doi:10.15288/jsa.1994.55.454

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“…Because alcohol is an addictive substance and when consumed can have negative public health effects, increases in price have often been directly associated with decreased alcohol-related problems (Sloan et al, 1994). In April 1992, prices were deliberately increased by a nickel a drink in the Australian Northern Territory.…”

Section: Alcohol Pricing and Taxesmentioning

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A Review of Alcohol and Other Drug Control Policy Research

Treno

Marzell

Gruenewald

et al. 2014

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs Suppl.

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ABSTRACT. Objective:This article provides a historical review of alcohol and other drug policy research and its impact on public health over the past 75 years. We begin our summary with the state of the fi eld circa 1940 and trace the development across the subsequent decades. We summarize current thinking and suggest possible future directions the fi eld of alcohol and other drug policy may take. Specifi c topics discussed include the minimum legal drinking age, pricing and taxation, hours and days of sale, outlet density, and privatization effects. The future of drug policy research is also considered. Method: A comprehensive search of the literature identifi ed empirical studies, reviews, and commentaries of alcohol and other drug policy research published from 1940 to 2013 that contributed to the current state of the fi eld. Results: Our review demonstrates the historical emergence of alcohol problems as a public health issue over the early part of the 20th century, the public health policy response to this issue, subsequent research, and current and future research trends. Conclusions: Alcohol and other drug policy research over the last several decades has made great strides in its empirical and theoretical sophistication of evaluating alcohol policy effects. This history is not only remarkable for its analytic complexity, but also for its conceptual sophistication. MethodTo accomplish our goal, we fi rst conducted a comprehensive search of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (and its previous iterations, the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol and the Journal of Studies on Alcohol), identifying empirical studies, reviews, and commentaries of alcohol and other drug policy research published from 1940 to 2013. We also included notable articles from other sources that further supported the importance of alcohol and other drug policy research for the improvement of public health. Although this review centers on alcohol and other drug policy research within the United States, we have also examined research from other countries as well. The scope of this review focused primarily on articles that highlighted alcohol-control policies such as the minimum legal drinking age, pricing and taxation, hours and days of sale, outlet density, and privatization effects; and policies aimed at reducing heavy alcohol consumption and related problems.

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Section: Alcohol Pricing and Taxesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of Alcohol and Other Drug Control Policy Research

Treno

Marzell

Gruenewald

et al. 2014

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs Suppl.

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“…Many of these studies use state-level data from the United States. Studies that examine the effect of state excise taxes on the cirrhosis mortality come up with mixed evidence (Grossman 1993, Sloan et al 1994. There is stronger evidence on the ef-fects of state taxes on workplace injuries (Ohsfeldt & Morrisey 1997) and on sexually transmitted diseases (Chesson et al 2000).…”

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Cross-border health and productivity effects of alcohol policies

Johansson¹,

Pekkarinen²,

Verho³

2014

Journal of Health Economics

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This paper studies the cross-border health and productivity effects of alcohol taxes. We estimate the effect of a large cut in the Finnish alcohol tax on mortality, alcohol related illnesses and work absenteeism in Sweden. This tax cut led to large differences in the prices of alcoholic beverages between these two countries and to a considerable increase in cross-border shopping. The effect is identified using differences-indifferences strategy where changes in these outcomes in regions near the Finnish border are compared to changes in other parts of northern Sweden. We use register data where micro level data on deaths, hospitalisations and absenteeism is merged to population-wide micro data on demographics and labour market outcomes. Our results on the effect of the Finnish tax cut on mortality alcohol-related hospitalisations in Sweden are very imprecise. However, we find that workplace absenteeism increased by 5% for males and by 13% for females near the Finnish border as a result of the tax cut.

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“…Several socioeconomic and demographic variables were included in the analyses, being selected for their potential to confound the main relationships of interest Holder & Parker, 1992;Sloan et al, 1994;Stockwell et al, 2011). Time-invariant census variables available from the 2006 census for each LHA (Statistics Canada, 2006) included percentages of aboriginal people and mean family income.…”

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Relationships Between Minimum Alcohol Pricing and Crime During the Partial Privatization of a Canadian Government Alcohol Monopoly

Stockwell

Zhao

Marzell

et al. 2015

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective:The purpose of this study was to estimate the independent effects of increases in minimum alcohol prices and densities of private liquor stores on crime outcomes in British Columbia, Canada, during a partial privatization of off-premise liquor sales. Method: A time-series cross-sectional panel study was conducted using mixed model regression analysis to explore associations between minimum alcohol prices, densities of liquor outlets, and crime outcomes across 89 local health areas of British Columbia between 2002 and 2010. Archival data on minimum alcohol prices, per capita alcohol outlet densities, and ecological demographic characteristics were related to measures of crimes against persons, alcohol-related traffic violations, and non-alcohol-related traffic violations. Analyses were adjusted for temporal and regional autocorrelation. Results: A 10% increase in provincial minimum alcohol prices was associated with an 18.81% (95% CI: ±17.99%, p < .05) reduction in alcohol-related traffic violations, a 9.17% (95% CI: ±5.95%, p < .01) reduction in crimes against persons, and a 9.39% (95% CI: ±3.80%, p < .001) reduction in total rates of crime outcomes examined. There was no significant association between minimum alcohol prices and non-alcohol-related traffic violations (p > .05). Densities of private liquor stores were not significantly associated with alcoholinvolved traffic violations or crimes against persons, though they were with non-alcohol-related traffic violations. Conclusions: Reductions in crime events associated with minimum-alcohol-price changes were more substantial and specific to alcohol-related events than the countervailing increases in densities of private liquor stores. The findings lend further support to the application of minimum alcohol prices for public health and safety objectives. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 76, 628-634, 2015)

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Effects of prices, civil and criminal sanctions, and law enforcement on alcohol-related mortality.

Cited by 144 publications

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A Review of Alcohol and Other Drug Control Policy Research

A Review of Alcohol and Other Drug Control Policy Research

Cross-border health and productivity effects of alcohol policies

Relationships Between Minimum Alcohol Pricing and Crime During the Partial Privatization of a Canadian Government Alcohol Monopoly

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