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 efforts to prevent alcohol-related harm are aimed at reducing risk drinking. This article
outlines the many conceptual and methodological challenges to defining risk drinking. It …

Aims To evaluate multinational patterns of gender‐and age‐specific alcohol consumption.
Design and participants Large general‐population surveys of men's and women's drinking …

Background To examine changes in men's and women's drinking in Norway over a 20-year
period, in order to learn whether such changes have led to gender convergence in alcohol …

Alcohol has historically been consumed in an unproblematic way by many people across
the European Union (EU). However, a significant proportion of alcohol consumption is …

Aims To review the consequences of the changes in Finnish alcohol policy in 2004, when
quotas for travellers' tax‐free imports of alcoholic beverages from other European Union …

Aims: To describe the effects of Russian policy since 2006 affecting price and availability on
the consumption of recorded and unrecorded alcohol, with specific reference to homemade …

BACKGROUND: According to the World Health Organization, the public health impact of
illicit alcohol and informally produced alcohol should be reduced. This paper summarizes …

Objective To examine recent trends in alcohol‐related harm and risky drinking in Victoria,
Australia. Methods The study compiled eight measures of alcohol‐related harm from …

A traditional heavy intoxication-oriented drinking style,“heroic drinking,” is a central drinking
practice in Denmark and Finland, especially among men. However, it seems that another …