Alcohol Drinking - Legislation & jurisprudence
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Alcohol and high-risk behavior among young first-time offenders.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Underage drinking carries a high risk of injury. An important approach for reducing underage drinking is limiting youth access to alcohol. Underage drinkers obtain alcohol from multiple sources and patterns of access may vary by region. ... Read more...

The role of research in the failure of the alcopops excise in Australia: what have we learned?

15 Aug 2009 We believe that a lack of adequate alcohol measures research is partly responsible for the failure of the Australian Government to pass legislation to equalise the excise applied to straight spirits and premixed spirits ("alcopops"). Current ... Read more...

Opium, tobacco and alcohol: the evolving legitimacy of international action.

30 Jul 2009 There is a broad consensus that international trade in goods is beneficial, providing of course that it is fair. Yet not all things that are traded are goods. Some can more appropriately be considered as 'bads'. The way things are viewed can change ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Alcohol Drinking - Legislation & jurisprudence'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• For public health doctors, alcohol is the new tobacco. 23 Sep 2009
• Alcohol and high-risk behavior among young first-time offenders. 30 Aug 2009
• The role of research in the failure of the alcopops excise in Australia: what have we learned? 15 Aug 2009
• Alcohol excise taxes. 30 Jul 2009
• Opium, tobacco and alcohol: the evolving legitimacy of international action. 30 Jul 2009
• A comparison of drivers with high versus low perceived risk of being caught and arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. 30 Jul 2009
• UK government may consider minimum price for alcohol. 18 Jul 2009
• Legal ages for purchase and consumption of alcohol and heavy drinking among college students in Canada, Europe, and the United States. 29 Jun 2009
• Binge drinking among youths and young adults in the United States: 1979-2006. 29 Jun 2009
• Youth binge drinking: progress made and remaining challenges. 29 Jun 2009
• The legal drinking age and underage drinking in the United States. 29 Jun 2009
• Alcohol poisoning among college students turning 21: do they recognize the symptoms and how do they help? 29 Jun 2009
• National alcohol policy after "alcopops": what next? 13 Jun 2009
• The nanny New Zealand state? 29 Apr 2009
• Governments as promoters of dangerous consumptions. 29 Apr 2009
• Legal-age students' provision of alcohol to underage college students: an exploratory study. 29 Apr 2009
• Experts on age estimation. 8 Apr 2009
• Media influence on alcohol-control policy support in the U.S. adult population: the intervening role of issue concern and risk judgments. 30 Mar 2009
• Differences in licensee, police and public opinions regarding interventions to reduce alcohol-related harm associated with licensed premises. 30 Mar 2009
• Reducing harm from alcohol. 18 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Alcohol Drinking'

Definition: Behaviors associated with the ingesting of alcoholic beverages, including social drinking.

Descriptor UI: D000428

Alternative terms: Alcohol Drinking; Alcohol Consumption; Consumption, Alcohol; Drinking, Alcohol;

Related Mesh Headings: Alcoholism; Temperance;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; blood; cerebrospinal fluid; drug therapy; economics; epidemiology; ethnology; genetics; history; immunology; legislation & jurisprudence; metabolism; mortality; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; therapy; trends; urine;

Tree Number: F01.145.317.269;

History Note: 69

Technical Notes: drunkenness = ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION but binge drinking & acute alcohol intox = ETHANOL /pois; chronic alcohol consumption = ALCOHOLISM; TEMPERANCE is available for "abstinence from alcohol" but do not confuse with alcohol withdrawal (see note under ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL DELIRIUM & SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME)