Contemporary Drug Problems articles from June 1993

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from June 1993

The evolution of alcohol monopolies and their relevance for public health. (Alcohol Monopolies in an Era of Change: Preserving and Enhancing the Public Health Benefits)
June 22, 1993... States have monopolized alcohol sales for many purposes, including the minimization of alcohol problems. Though they are threatened with reductions in scope or privatization, they have substantial potential as instruments for promoting public...

Changing responsibilities of Nordic alcohol monopolies. (Alcohol Monopolies in an Era of Change: Preserving and Enhancing the Public Health Benefits)
June 22, 1993... State alcohol monopolies in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Iceland were an outcome of the interplay of temperance movements with national and class movements. Their place as an important feature of the Scandinavian welfare society is threatened by...

Implications for monopolies of the European integration. (Alcohol Monopolies in an Era of Change: Preserving and Enhancing the Public Health Benefits)
June 22, 1993... The situation of the alcohol monopolies in Sweden, Norway and Finland has been dramatically changed in the last five years by the negotiations on entry to the Common Market, where doubts are expressed about whether a state monopoly is a...

Who wants an alcohol monopoly? (Alcohol Monopolies in an Era of Change: Preserving and Enhancing the Public Health Benefits)
June 22, 1993... Comparing the strength then and now of the social bases underlying the formation of the Norwegian monopoly in 1921, it is concluded that the structural support for the monopoly is now weaker, although 60% of Norwegians still feel that the...

Alcohol policy within a fiscal frame: the case of the state alcohol monopoly in Iceland. (Alcohol Monopolies in an Era of Change: Preserving and Enhancing the Public Health Benefits)
June 22, 1993... A substantial rise in alcohol consumption in Iceland in the 1980s reflected n part the legalization of strong beer in 1989. The future of the state monopoly will be influenced by two competing interests: an effort to put the monopoly under the...

Privatization of the alcohol arena in Poland. (Alcohol Monopolies in an Era of Change: Preserving and Enhancing the Public Health Benefits)
June 22, 1993... The Polish alcohol market, controlled by a state monopoly since the 1920s, was privatized in 1988-89. Alcohol problems indicators have risen sharply, and indirect estimates suggest that alcohol consumption has risen to the highest level in the...

Protecting oneself and protecting others: refusing service, providing warnings, and other strategies for alcohol monopolies. (Alcohol Monopolies in an Era of Change: Preserving and Enhancing the Public Health Benefits)
June 22, 1993... Efforts by the Ontario government wine and spirits store system to reduce sales to minors and to intoxicated customers are described.

The state monopoly as a public policy approach to consumption and alcohol problems: a review of research evidence. (Alcohol Monopolies in an Era of Change: Preserving and Enhancing the Public Health Benefits)
June 22, 1993... Time-series analyses of the effects of privatization, as well as a variety of studies of the effects of aspects of availability affected by monopolization, support the conclusion that the state retail-sales alcohol monopolies can hold down the...

Addictions: Personal Influences and Scientific Movements.
June 22, 1993... For a serious student of the alcohol and drug fields, this book is a dream come true. It contains interviews with 27 "international leaders in the field of addictions" that originally appeared in the British Journal of Addiction in the 1980s....