Alcohol’s harm to others: Quantifying a little or a lot of harm

Global Alcohol Harm Network: Struggling or Emerging? A Response to Shiffman

Correction for Crockett et al., Harm to others outweighs harm to self in moral decision making.

Concern for the suffering of others is central to moral decision making. How humans evaluate others' suffering, relative to their own suffering, is unknown. We investigated this question by inviting subjects to trade off profits for themselves against pain experienced either by themselves or an anonymous other person. Subjects made choices between different amounts of money and different number...

Harm to Others: The Social Cost of Antibiotics in Agriculture

It has become increasingly clear that the use of antibiotics in conventionally raised livestock contributes to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. In this paper, I argue that the harm principle of classical liberalism should guide agricultural policy in general, and the regulation of antibiotics in livestock in particular. After developing an interpretation of the harm principle, an...

Harm to Others From Substance Use and Abuse

At the discretion of the guest editors other articles on other relevant topics within the scope of the supplement may be included. This supplement is intended to focus on harm to others from substance use and abuse. Harm to others from alcohol, opioid, cannabis, cocaine and nicotine use and abuse are within the supplements scope. Types of harm include violence, family deprivation, crime, and ne...

How Well Do Survey Studies Capture Alcohol’s Harm to Others?

Empirical studies assessing alcohol's harm to others very often rely on population survey data. This study addresses some of the problems and challenges in using survey data for this purpose. Such problems include the limited capacity of population surveys in identifying infrequent harm and long-term consequences of drinking. Moreover, the drinker may report the alcohol-related harm or the pers...