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U-turn Our Complacency in Dealing With the Potency of Alcohol

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Abstract

This article argues that we need to reverse our complacency in dealing with alcohol, a drug that kills at least 2.7 million people worldwide annually. Ecological studies suggest that humans have evolved to be active and functional in relation to alcohol use; the present problem is that alcohol is too easily available in too potent a form. Toxicological analyses indicate that European adults consume, on average, 1,000 times the dose of alcohol that would normally be set for voluntary exposure to a consumed carcinogen. Political analyses find that a predominant driver of alcohol-related harm is the potency of business influence on policy making. Complacency would be reversed by compulsory warning labels that alcohol causes cancer; by holding producers accountable for the harm that their products cause; and, by governments moving toward a global legally binding agreement for alcohol.


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Author(s): Anderson P

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Substance Use & Misuse

Year: 2015

Volume: 50

Issue: 8-9

Pages: 1178-1181

Online publication date: 11/09/2015

ISSN (print): 1082-6084

ISSN (electronic): 1532-2491

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10826084.2015.1012841

DOI: 10.3109/10826084.2015.1012841


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