Both alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems are, it is claimed, rapidly increasing
problems in central and eastern Europe, due to the transition period. The article presents …

In 1993 the economic recession continued in the Nordic countries, as well as in the whole of
western Europe, for the third subsequent year. As a consequence, alcohol consumption …

Worldwide, Europe plays a significant part in the production, trade and consumption of
alcoholic beverages and it also carries a heavy burden of alcoholrelated problems …

The nature of alcohol problems is very diverse and the strategies adopted for minimising
these vary even more. Thinking in the study of alcohol problems in the 1970s and early …

The case of alcohol policy in the Nordic countries of Finland, Sweden, and Norway during
the 1960s, which was intended to liberalize their alcohol control systems, is already an …

The term Nordic alcohol policy refers to the policy the Nordic countries practice in relation to
alcohol related problems, and furthermore indicates that the different Nordic countries share …

As recently as 10 years ago, Scandinavian countries demonstrated a well-recognized model
of alcohol policy which used monopolies and national control strategies such as taxation to …

In the last decades the Netherlands have experienced a strong increase in heavy drinking,
alcohol-related morbidity and, to a lesser extent, alcohol-related mortality. Along with an …

During the last decades alcohol consumption in many European countries has changed
remarkably. To quote two prominent examples: in 1955 per capita consumption of pure …

Nordic statistics show that in 1994 Denmark had the highest consumption of alcoholic
beverages, with a per capita figure of 9.9 liters of 100% alcohol. It is close to the top of the list …