...Mary Lawhon; Clare Herrick Abstract Media coverage of the “problems” associated with alcohol is widespread in countries of the global North and now, increasingly, in those of the global South. However, despite this mounting ubiquity, there have been very few analyses either of newspaper coverage...

...Norman R. Kurtz John Cavanagh and Frederick F. Clairmonte, Alcoholic Beverages: Dimensions of Corporate Power (New York: St. Martins Press, 1985), 173 pp. Dean R. Gerstein, Toward the Prevention of Alcoholic Problems: Government, Business, and Community Action (Washington, DC: National...

...Dan E. Beauchamp Alcoholism policy since the repeal of Prohibition has been largely based on the assumption that alcohol problems are the result of the failure of a small minority to “control” their drinking. Thus, in sharp contrast to the approach to other drug policies, the problem of alcohol...

...Thomas D. Watts Dan E. Beauchamp, Beyond Alcoholism: Alcohol and Public Health Policy , (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980), 222 pp. Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 Book Review Thomas D. Watts, University of Texas...

...James F. Mosher In 1982 U.S. businesses will spend over $10 billion (12 percent of the total retail alcohol market) on alcoholic beverages which will be consumed by top executives, professionals, and other white-collar employees in a variety of business and personal settings. The Internal Revenue...

...Janet Golden This article examines the portrayal of pregnancy and alcohol in thirty-six national network evening news broadcasts (ABC, CBS, NBC). Early coverage focused on white, middle-class women, as scientific authorities and government officials warned against drinking during pregnancy. After...

...James Harold Judith Rumgay. Crime, Punishment, and the Drinking Offender . New York: St. Martin's, 1998. 234 pp. $59.95 cloth; Mariana Valverde. Diseases of the Will: Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 264 pp. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper...

...Shama Gamkhar; Shao-Chee Sim Are the federal Alcohol and Drug Abuse (ADA) block grant funds substituting for or supplementing state and local government spending on substance abuse?Using panel data on state and local government substance abuse programs, this study explores the fiscal effects...

...Leon S. Robertson Although most research on the effect of minimum legal drinking age (LDA) laws on proxies for alcohol-related fatalities find effects of higher LDAs in reducing such fatalities, recent research that supposedly controls for drinking experience claims that higher LDAs have little...

... on the intended services or use budgetary strategies to appear to be in compliance with maintenance-of-effort provisions but then reallocate block grant funds from the targeted program. We studied the effect of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health block grant program on state substance abuse expenditures...

...Martine Hackett Janet Golden. Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 232 pp. $25.95. Duke University Press 2007 Books J. Eric Oliver. Fat Politics: The Real Story...

...Patricia Maloney Alt Jean-Charles Sournia. A History of Alcoholism. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. 232 pp. $29.95 cloth. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 References Beauchamp , D. 1980 . Beyond Alcoholism: Alcohol and Public Health Policy. Philadelphia: Temple...

...J. Paul Leigh; Arthur L. Frank Economists view taxes as a more efficient means of reducing the consumption of a product than regulation. They have therefore suggested raising cigarette and alcohol taxes to reduce the undesirable effects of tobacco and alcohol on the public's health. This essay...

.... The authors propose instead that the VA become a model system for the care of the chronically ill, the alcoholic, and the aged whose needs tend to be neglected by the overall health system. Copyright © 1976-77 by Duke University Press 1976 ...

... Center (CMHC) program through 1976 is then outlined with regard to particular social problems (e.g., alcoholism) and to domestic politics as they influenced the program's regulations and mandates. A brief critique of the CMHC program from both viewpoints follows, with emphasis on poor administration...

...Lars Thorup Larsen Since the 1970s public health policy has attempted to counter the rise of chronic diseases by getting individuals to make healthy choices about smoking, alcohol, diet, and physical exercise. Inspired by the so-called new perspective of the 1974 Lalonde report, this shift from...

.... And it is but the most visible sign of a broader population health challenge that includes methamphetamine, cocaine, benzodiazepines, and alcohol. This article presents practical legislative and executive actions that are required for addressing these challenges. The authors focus on two broad policy challenges: (1...

... reflect a more nuanced integration of the two norms. The tobacco control example has direct relevance to related policy areas, including environment, safety, access to medicines, diet, and alcohol. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Addressing the enormous implications of tobacco...

..., between public health campaigns and drug wars. I begin by locating morality within traditional paradigms of American politics (which are designed to overlook the issue); I then suggest how moral stigmas are constructed; show how they are deployed in debates over public health issues, such as alcohol abuse...

...Stephen D. Sugarman This article offers a bold new idea for confronting the staggering level of death, injury, and disease caused by five consumer products: cigarettes, alcohol, guns, junk food, and motor vehicles. Business leaders try to frame these negative outcomes as “collateral damage...