In March 2012, the UK Coalition published The Government's Alcohol Strategy (GAS). It is
the third such strategy to be published in just eight years, and marks a significant change in …

Preventing alcohol-related harm presents a range of challenges including those related to
political will, competing interests with disproportionate resources, and embedded drinking …

Alcoholism and Social Policy: are we on the right lines? Page 1 Britishjoumalof Addiction 76
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This document is intended for those policy-makers, researchers and concerned members of
the public who wish to obtain information about the consumption of alcohol, alcohol-related …

Aims: To identify how current public health policies of 12 developed countries assess
alcohol-related problems, the goals and targets that are set and the strategic directives …

Background Despite a complex and multi-faceted alcohol policy environment in Australia,
there are few comprehensive reviews of national and state alcohol policies that assess their …

Background The power to influence many social determinants of health lies within local
government sectors that are outside public health's traditional remit. We analyse the …

This paper sets out to chart key trends in alcohol consumption and harm, and of related
policy activity in the UK between 1990 and 2010. As a journal paper cannot provide a …

This paper seeks to identify the main questions which have emerged from the preceding
papers concerning the supply side of alcohol. On any rational analysis these issues are of …

There is a considerable body of research evidence documenting effective policies that
reduce the harm a community incurs from alcohol. These effective policies include …