Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity-Research and Public Policy Second Edition is a
collaborative effort by an international group of addiction scientists to improve the linkages …

Cultural and economic patterns from 130 sociological works on suicide from 1981 to 1995
are reviewed in this article. The traditional Durkheimian perspective on suicide was often …

Suicide is an escalating public health problem, and alcohol use has consistently been
implicated in the precipitation of suicidal behavior. Alcohol abuse may lead to suicidality …

Aims. To assess an empirical basis for cross‐national and cross‐cultural comparisons of
four aspects of the association between alcohol consumption and homicide: the relative …

Objective: Alcohol per capita consumption (APC) is used for monitoring harmful alcohol
exposure in populations and assessing progress with goals set internationally and …

An individual's decision to use alcohol and the frequency, quantity, and situation of such use
are the result of a combination of biological and social factors. Drinking is not only a …

Research developments since the appearance of MacAndrew and Edgerton's landmark
volume, Drunken Comportment (1969), are summarized. The challenge of moving beyond …

Background: Abrupt changes in the alcohol consumption level and the suicide rate
associated with the anti-alcohol campaign of 1985–1991 and the market reforms of 1992 …

Both intoxication and chronic heavy alcohol use are associated with suicide. There is
extensive population‐level evidence linking per capita alcohol consumption with suicide …

Russian levels of alcohol consumption and suicide are among the highest in the world.
while observers have long suspected an association between the two, they were unable to …