Sentences with phrase «alcohol policy»

The findings highlight the importance of population - based alcohol policies in suicide prevention.

But, between 1987 and 1994, as restrictive alcohol policy was abandoned and alcohol became widely available, life expectancy fell by 7.3 years for men and 3.3 years for women.

Better implementation of effective alcohol policies can reduce alcohol availability at a population level, which in turn, reduces the average risk of suicide, especially in those cases where alcohol is involved.

Overall, a number of studies suggest that restrictive alcohol policies have a protective effect on reducing suicide at a general population level.

Edited by Anne Fox and Mike MacAvoy and prepared by the International Center for Alcohol Policies and DrinkWise Australia, this book seeks to advance current understanding of the individual and collective meanings, purposes, and functions of drunkenness.

She has contributed to research for the Australian Government in building capacity and the evidence base for the development of alcohol policy in northern Australia, with a particular focus on how this impacts Aboriginal communities.

«Strong alcohol policies help reduce alcohol - involved homicides.»

The Annotated Bibliography is a comprehensive research tool featuring beverage alcohol policy and research.

As a trade association representing all stakeholders in the alcohol industry, NABCA can serve as a resource on alcohol policy.

They then conducted a series of logistic regression models that included fixed effects for year and state, and adjusted for demographic characteristics, school characteristics, and other state alcohol policies.

The pre-manifesto confirmed Clegg's promise to end the use of imprisonment for personal drug use and pledged to «move the drugs and alcohol policy lead from the Home Office to the Department of Health».

As a member of the New South Wales / Australian Capital Territory Alcohol Policy Alliance (#NAAPA), FARE played an integral role in campaigning for action on alcohol ahead of the 2015 NSW State Election in March.

The new study looked at the relationship between alcohol policies in place and the likelihood of alcohol involvement (either up to the legal limit of 0.08 or above that limit) among the 27,000 victims of homicide from 17 U.S. states between 2003 and 2012.

Examples of adult alcohol policies include higher alcohol taxes, having fewer outlets licensed to sell alcohol, bans on happy hours, restricted hours of alcohol sales, and laws prohibiting service to intoxicated adults.

We exchange information and advocate for evidence - based alcohol policy as active members of alliances and forums for public interest groups

And while being hit in the head by a can could indeed cause substantial harm, and while the statement posted is vague about the policy changes being considered, no plausible alcohol policy is going to be 100 % effective in preventing yahoos from occasionally throwing things onto the field in malicious ways.

Now Ohio State is saying its school drug and alcohol policy doesn't apply to a DUI breathalyzer test?

«The government's renewed alcohol policy aims to forge a clearer national understanding of what is acceptable drinking behaviour in order to reduce the harm that alcohol causes to individuals, families and communities.

It states that, by the end of 2016, a comprehensive EU strategy should be adopted with a cross-border dimension and an EU added value as a follow up to the first EU Alcohol Strategy (2006 - 2012) based on the work of the Committee of National Alcohol Policy and Action (CNAPA) as well as the WHO Global Strategy and WHO European Action Plan 2012 - 2020.

IAS is member of the European Alcohol Policy Alliance (Eurocare), an alliance that strongly supports a continuation of the efforts of the Union to address alcohol - related harm.

Death and ill health will be averted now Scotland's pioneering minimum alcohol policy has finally cleared legal hurdles, say John Holmes and Petra Meier

The authors recommend additional research on linkages between state - level alcohol policies and alcohol - involvement by both perpetrators and victims of homicide.

However, little is known about how alcohol policies, which include alcohol taxes and the number of places licensed to sell alcohol, relate to alcohol - related homicides.

«Adult - oriented alcohol policies likely influence youth via parallel pathways: Some of the effect is directly on youth, and some is indirect through its effects on adults.»

Ziming Xuan, ScD, SM, MA, assistant professor of community health sciences at BUSPH and the study's first author, said the aggregation and categorizing of state policies was, in itself, an innovation in alcohol policy evaluation.

Professor Nick Sheron, from the University of Southampton, comments: «Setting a Minimum Unit Price for alcohol is an almost perfect alcohol policy because it targets cheap booze bought by very heavy drinkers and leaves moderate drinkers completely unaffected.

And yet, tough training topics can also be some of the most important ones for your staff since many of them carry big liability and risk implications (such as bullying and harassment training) or have huge effects on business success (such as drug and alcohol policy training).

Alcoholic beverages may be served but a bartender and per - head liquor liability insurance are required in accordance with the HGSE Alcohol Policy.

Violations of campus alcohol policy that result in injury or damage to property or undermine the safety and security of the campus community, including acts of hazing.

A student may not consume, buy, sell, borrow, possess, lend or give as a gift any alcoholic beverage in such a way that would be a violation of any local, state or federal law or the institutional alcohol policy.

Adhere to company alcohol policies by verifying customers» identification when requested to serve beer or wine.

A National Alcohol Strategy would include a specific focus on the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, but connect these to general population alcohol policy to enable coordinated responses to both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous problem drinking at regional and national levels.

Homebrewing information is sometimes listed as «noncommercial» (International Center for Alcohol Policies) or «unrecorded» alcohol (World Health Organization) or as «home production» in multinational sources.

A new study by Boston University and Boston Medical Center (BMC) researchers reveals that U.S. states with stronger alcohol policies have lower rates of youth overall drinking and binge drinking.

Comment - UK Alcohol Policy is All Bluff and Bluster The UK's Coalition Government is showing every sign of being stumped by the country's love affair with the bottle, not that the industry is compla

As a member of NABCA, you have access to a variety of information related to the regulation and sale of beverage alcohol, related public health messages and beverage alcohol policy.

With the government unable to present a united front on alcohol policy, health secretary Andrew Lansley was forced to defend the deal, due later this week, as an example of robust but measured action.

Stronger, more restrictive state alcohol policies were protective when alcohol was involved in a homicide.

«Given the risks involved with alcohol use, strengthening effective alcohol policies could help prevent homicides,» said Timothy Naimi, MD, the study's lead author who is a physician in general internal medicine at BMC and researcher at BMC's Grayken Center for Addiction Medicine.

By subcategorizing policies into youth - specific and adult laws, researchers were able to explore the associations of youth drinking with adult alcohol policies, independent of the association between youth drinking and youth - targeted policies.

In this chapter, I discuss how human rights treaties and the Declaration can be used to guide the development of alcohol policy as an example of the practical effect of a human rights approach.

We produce up - to - date information and factsheets on key aspects of alcohol policy in the UK that are freely available on our website, and quarterly magazines called Alcohol Alert and the Globe

The authors summarize the associations between various types of alcohol policies and suicide, both in the U.S. and internationally, as found in English - language literature published between 1999 and 2014.

Its alcohol policy recommends member institutions to «prohibit on - site alcohol advertising during all preseason, regular season, conference and postseason intercollegiate events».

The only misstep comes in the 4th paragraph, where the apology turns to the question of changes in policy: «We will... enact heightened security measures and alcohol policies that will ensure the fan experience and safety of everybody involved.»

A May 2017 presentation setting up the talks, prepared for the organization serving Hajdu and her colleagues, noted ministers needed to consider whether to mandate companies to create drug and alcohol policies, set thresholds to define when a worker is impaired from cannabis, or set «explicit authorities for alcohol and drug testing» either through legislation or regulations.