Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity-Research and Public Policy Second Edition is a
collaborative effort by an international group of addiction scientists to improve the linkages …

Many college students drink heavily and experience myriad associated negative
consequences. This review suggests that a developmental perspective can facilitate a better …

Aims To estimate the effect on violence of small changes in closing hours for on‐premise
alcohol sales, and to assess whether a possible effect is symmetrical. Design, setting, and …

Risky single-occasion drinking (RSOD) is more common in late adolescence and early
adulthood (approximately between the ages of 16 and 30) than in any other period in life …

Background The amount of alcohol consumed during an occasion can be influenced by
physical and social attributes of the setting, characteristics and state of individuals, and the …

Aim: To review the international literature concerning pre-loading (PL); this is drinking before
going out to pubs and bars. Method: A literature review conducted in May 2013 using the …

Over the past few decades, enormous research effort has been devoted to understanding
drinking in licensed venues such as bars, clubs and pubs. The emergence in many …

Friendship, sociologists suggest, is defined by institutionalized rules to a lesser degree than
other important relationships. Hence it must be sustained through specific friendship-making …

Introduction and Aims. A number of studies have previously identified relationships between
the density of alcohol outlets and rates of violence, with different types of outlets related to …

Background Research in the U nited S tates and the U nited K ingdom indicates that drinking
before going out (commonly called “predrinking”) is common among young people and …