Privatization of Alcohol Sales
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In November 2010, Washington State will be voting on two initiatives, I-1100 and I-1105, that aim to privatize alcohol sales, ending the state’s monopoly on spirits. Supporters of the initiatives claim that privatization has the potential to save the state hundreds of thousands of dollars; opponents counter that it could end up costing the state more in the long-run, as problem drinking increases and with it social costs from crime, health care, traffic accidents, underage drinking, and more. This brief collects recent resources to provide background information on this issue. Additional news and resources about I-1100 and I-1105 can be found on the ADAI News blog.
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Recommendations on privatization of alcohol retail sales and prevention of excessive alcohol consumption and related harms.
The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends against privatization of alcohol retail sales in settings with current government control of retail sales, based on strong evidence that privatization results in increased per capita consumption of alcoholic beverages, a well-established proxy for excessive consumption and related harms.
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CONTEXT Excessive alcohol consumption is the third-leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. This systematic review is one in a series exploring effectiveness of interventions to reduce alcohol-related harms. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION The focus of this review was on studies evaluating the effects of the privatization of alcohol retail sales on excessive alcohol consumption and related harms. ...
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i Inthe current issue of theAmerican Journal of Preventive Medicine, the Community Preventive Services Task Force (Task Force) provides a set of review and recommendation papers on the privatization of alcohol sales, which is very timely, to say the least. In the Noember 2011 election, voters in Washington State enorsed Initiative Measure 1183, which has the effect of aking that state out of th...
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OBJECTIVE To determine if allowing wine sales in corner grocery stores, beginning in 1978 for domestic Quebec wines and then in 1983 for imported wines, in addition to sales in government monopoly stores, led to an increase in alcohol consumption. METHOD Aggregate retail sales data for the period 1953 to 1990 were analyzed using econometric regression techniques. Time series (unit root) analy...
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Implications of privatizing/deregulating alcohol retail sales: projections of alcohol consumption in Ontario. Her M, Giesbrecht N, Room R, Rehm J. Center for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [email protected] PURPOSE: To project the consequences of privatizing or deregulating current alcohol retail monopolies in Ontario, Canada. METHODS: The projection is based on a multiplicat...
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