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Public Health Implications of the Enroll and Clayson Licensing Reports *
Author(s) -
Glatt M. M.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
british journal of addiction to alcohol and other drugs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0007-0890
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1974.tb01289.x
Subject(s) - consumption (sociology) , point (geometry) , public health , psychology , medicine , environmental health , political science , sociology , social science , nursing , geometry , mathematics
Summary It is well known and emphasized by the Erroll Committee itself that “the picture …, particularly over the last 20 years, is of rising overall consumption, accompanied by an increase in alcoholism death rates and in offences of drunkenness…”, and among the young in the last few years not only a rise in drunkenness offences but also in the rates of alcoholism. (Glass 1972). Further research in this field is obviously necessary, but from the public health point of view one may seriously question whether this is the best time to recommend a marked relaxation of licensing laws, and increase the availability of drink, venues, hours and opportunities for drinking, for all age groups, thus making drink more widely available and socially more acceptable.