Formulating Effective Alcohol Policy: Not as Simple as it Sounds

Promoting Well-Being: Crisis, Loss, and Alcohol

“…Traditional medical responses to this situation see such problematic use as the flawed behavior of ill people, which, if treated correctly, will then result in improved health. More recently, much of UK governmental policy has added to this a preoccupation with the tension between managing legal economic markets of alcohol and drug consumption, with limiting negative health, social, and workplace costs (Davidson, 2013). These approaches emphasize the sense of two distinct populations: legitimate normal healthy users and inappropriate misbehaving addicts.…”