Showing posts with label policies. Show all posts
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Monday 13 June 2016

People Consume More Alcohol

People Consume More Alcohol.
Strong maintain alcohol control policies record a difference in efforts to help prevent binge drinking, a new study finds. Binge drinking - non-specifically defined as having more than four to five alcoholic drinks in a two-hour span - is responsible for more than half of the 80000 alcohol-related deaths in the United States each year. "If demon rum policies were a newly discovered gene, pill or vaccine, we'd be investing billions of dollars to occasion them to market," study senior author Dr Tim Naimi, an fellow professor of medicine at Boston University Schools of Medicine and attending doctor at Boston Medical Center (BMC), said in a BMC news release.

Naimi and his colleagues gave scores to states based on their implementation of 29 booze control policies. States with higher method scores were one-fourth as likely as those with lower scores to have binge drinking rates in the top 25 percent of states. This was stable even after the researchers accounted for a variety of factors associated with hard stuff consumption, such as age, sex, race, income, geographic region, urban-rural differences, and levels of monitor and alcohol enforcement personnel.