Contemporary Drug Problems articles from December 2004

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from December 2004

A study of the alcohol policy development process in the United States: theory, goals, and methods.
December 22, 2004... Alcohol policy has frequently been the focus of research, community action, and political debate. An extensive literature over the past several decades has concerned the impact of various policy measures on rates of consumption and/or...

The alcohol policy development process: policymakers speak.
December 22, 2004... Background and study aims The project involved an interdisciplinary study of the U.S. national alcohol policy development process (Greenfield et al., 2004a) (this issue). The researchers studied various alcohol policies, including...

Division in the ranks: an analysis of alliances and dissension in the alcohol industry and advocacy communities.
December 22, 2004... Given the limited societal resources for the prevention and treatment of problems associated with alcohol consumption, the identification of strategies to maximize available political and financial capital is an important area for policy...

Alcohol advertising policies in the United States: national promotion and control initiatives.
December 22, 2004... Introduction and literature synopsis In this article we focus on U.S. national developments in alcohol advertising and counter-advertising in the 1980s and 1990s. Our expectation was that by taking a sharp look at some specific policies...

Changing the price of alcohol in the United States: perspectives from the alcohol industry, public health, and research.
December 22, 2004... Among alcohol policy interventions aimed at populations rather than individuals, taxation is one of the most controversial. Some U.S. citizens and politicians seem to see taxation as inherently undesirable and even distasteful. They are leery...

The role of research in the development of U.S. federal alcohol control policy.
December 22, 2004... The role of research in the public-policy-making process is shaped by the difference between the aims of science and those of policymaking. Scientists seek to proactively uncover and refine a body of absolute knowledge, while policymakers must...

Public opinion on alcohol policy: a review of U.S. research.
December 22, 2004... Although public sentiments concerning alcohol issues have long been a subject of historical and social research, public opinion in relation to specific alcohol policies has only recently emerged as a research area in its own right. In the late...