FROM SCIENCE TO ACTION? 100 YEARS LATER ALCOHOL POLICIES REVISITED

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1 FROM SCIENCE TO ACTION? 100 YEARS LATER ALCOHOL POLICIES REVISITED

2 FROM SCIENCE TO ACTION? 100 YEARS LATER ALCOHOL POLICIES REVISITED Edited by Richard Müller Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems, Lausanne, Switzerland and Harald Klingemann University of Applied Sciences, School of Social Work, Bern, Switzerland KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS NEW YORK, BOSTON, DORDRECHT, LONDON, MOSCOW

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4 Generous support and sponsorship has been assured by a number of national as well as international agencies, societies and public authorities: The Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization The Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol IVO (Instituut voor Onderzoek naar Leefwijzen & Verslaving) Addiction Research Institute, Rotterdam The Swiss Federal Office of Public Health The Swiss Alcohol Board The Swiss National Science Foundation The Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences The Swiss Foundation for Alcohol Research

5 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction... 1 Richard Müller, Schweizerische Fachstelle für Alkoholund andere Drogenprobleme, Lausanne, Switzerland INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE 2. Alcohol policy on the agendas of the European Union... 5 Salme Ahlström, Thomas Karlsson & Esa Österberg, STAKES, NationalResearch and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, Alcohol and Drug Research, Helsinki, Finland 3. From Alcohol, Society and the State to Broken Spirits to Pekka Sulkunen, Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki,Finland 4. Alcohol policy and the public good: As simple as one, two, three? Thomas F. Babor, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Dept of Community Medicine and Health Care, Farmington, Connecticut, USA 5. Harm reduction: the drugification of alcohol policies and the alcoholisation of drug policies Tim Stockwell, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University, Perth, Australia HISTORY 6. From temperance movement to state action: A historical view of the alcohol question in industrialised countries Irmgard Eisenbach-Stangl, Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut für Suchtforschung, Wien, Austria

6 viii TABLE OF CONTENTS 7. Reducing discursive complexity The case of alcohol policies in Europe ( ) Barbara Lucas, IEPI, Université de Lausanne ; Département de science politique, Université de Genève, Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland ACTION 8. Community action from an international perspective Harold D. Holder, Prevention Research Center, Berkeley, California, USA 9. Does price matter? The effect of decreased price on spirits consumption in Switzerland Jean-Luc Heeb, Gerhard Gmel, Schweizerische Fachstelle für Alkohol- und andere Drogenprobleme, Lausanne, Switzerland; Meichun Kuo, Jürgen Rehm, Institut für Suchtforschung, Zürich & University of Toronto, Canada Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada 10.Policies and politics in France Michel Craplet, Association Nationale de Prévention de l'alcoolisme (ANPA),Paris, France 11.Drunkenness and preference for spirits in different countries Holger Schmid, Schweizerische Fachstelle für Alkohol- und andere Drogenproblem, Lausanne, Switzerland 12.Towards evidence-based policy Henk F.L. Garretsen and Ien van de Goor, University of Tilburg, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Tilburg, The Netherlands

7 TABLE OF CONTENTS ix ETHICS AND POLITICS OF POLICIES 13. What if we found the magic bullet? Robin Room, Stockholm University, Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs, Stockholm, Sweden 14.Science, public policy and the alcohol industry Norman A. Giesbrecht, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Social, Prevention & Health Policy Department, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 100 YEARS SWISS ALCOHOL POLICY 15.Swiss alcohol policy Model or Sonderfall? Richard Müller, Schweizerische Fachstelle für Alkohol- und andere Drogenprobleme, Lausanne, Switzerland