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LANCET
Volume 389, Issue 10078, Pages 1558-1580Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32420-5
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- Department of Health
- Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
- Medical Research Council
- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at South London and Maudsley NHS Mental Health Foundation Trust
- British Liver Trust
- Alcohol Education Research Council
- Pabrinex
- Norgine
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This paper reviews the evidence for the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of policies to reduce alcohol-related harm. Policies focus on price, marketing, availability, information and education, the drinking environment, drink-driving, and brief interventions and treatment. Although there is variability in research design and measured outcomes, evidence supports the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of policies that address affordability and marketing. An adequate reduction in temporal availability, particularly late night on-sale availability, is effective and cost-effective. Individually-directed interventions delivered to at-risk drinkers and enforced legislative measures are also effective. Providing information and education increases awareness, but is not sufficient to produce long-lasting changes in behaviour. At best, interventions enacted in and around the drinking environment lead to small reductions in acute alcohol-related harm. Overall, there is a rich evidence base to support the decisions of policy makers in implementing the most effective and cost-effective policies to reduce alcohol-related harm.
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