Alcohol, No Ordinary Commodity: policy implications for Canada

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2024.1335865

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. 2024 May 22:12:1335865.

doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1335865. eCollection 2024.

Alcohol, No Ordinary Commodity: policy implications for Canada

Jean-François Crépault^{1

2}, Timothy S Naimi^{3

4}, Jürgen Rehm^{1

2

5

6

7

8}, Kevin D Shield^{1

2}, Samantha Wells^{1

9

10}, Ashley Wettlaufer¹, Thomas F Babor¹¹

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, Victoria, BC, Canada.
⁴ Alcohol Program, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States.
⁵ Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁶ Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁷ Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy & Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
⁸ Center for Interdisciplinary Addiction Research (ZIS), Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany.
⁹ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
¹⁰ School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia.
¹¹ Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, United States.

PMID: 38841683
PMCID: PMC11150774
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1335865

Review

Alcohol, No Ordinary Commodity: policy implications for Canada

Jean-François Crépault et al. Front Public Health. 2024.

. 2024 May 22:12:1335865.

doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1335865. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Jean-François Crépault^{1

2}, Timothy S Naimi^{3

4}, Jürgen Rehm^{1

2

5

6

7

8}, Kevin D Shield^{1

2}, Samantha Wells^{1

9

10}, Ashley Wettlaufer¹, Thomas F Babor¹¹

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, Victoria, BC, Canada.
⁴ Alcohol Program, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States.
⁵ Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁶ Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁷ Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy & Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
⁸ Center for Interdisciplinary Addiction Research (ZIS), Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany.
⁹ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
¹⁰ School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia.
¹¹ Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, United States.

PMID: 38841683
PMCID: PMC11150774
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1335865

Abstract

Alcohol is a favorite psychoactive substance of Canadians. It is also a leading risk factor for death and disability, playing a causal role in a broad spectrum of health and social issues. Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity is a collaborative, integrative review of the scientific literature. This paper describes the epidemiology of alcohol use and current state of alcohol policy in Canada, best practices in policy identified by the third edition of Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity, and the implications for the development of effective alcohol policy in Canada. Best practices - strongly supported by the evidence, highly effective in reducing harm, and relatively low-cost to implement - have been identified. Measures that control affordability, limit availability, and restrict marketing would reduce population levels of alcohol consumption and the burden of disease attributable to it.

Keywords: alcohol; alcohol policy; health policy; public health; substance use.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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[1] Babor TF, Casswell S, Graham K, Huckle T, Livingston M, Österberg E, et al. . Alcohol: No ordinary commodity. 3rd ed. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; (2022).

[2] Babor TF, Casswell S, Graham K, Huckle T, Livingston M, Österberg E, et al. . Alcohol: No ordinary commodity. 3rd ed. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; (2022).

[3] Statistics Canada . Canadian alcohol and drugs survey (CADS): Summary of results for 2019. Ottawa: Canada; (2020).

[4] Statistics Canada . Canadian alcohol and drugs survey (CADS): Summary of results for 2019. Ottawa: Canada; (2020).

[5] Statistics Canada . Table 10-10-0010-01. Sales of alcoholic beverages types by liquor authorities and other retail outlets, by value, volume, and absolute volume. Ottawa, Canada: Statistics Canada; (2023).

[6] Statistics Canada . Table 10-10-0010-01. Sales of alcoholic beverages types by liquor authorities and other retail outlets, by value, volume, and absolute volume. Ottawa, Canada: Statistics Canada; (2023).

[7] World Health Organization . Global information system on alcohol and health. (2023). Available at: https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/global-information-system-on-al...

[8] World Health Organization . Global information system on alcohol and health. (2023). Available at: https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/global-information-system-on-al...

[9] Rehm J, Crépault JF, Wettlaufer A, Manthey J, Shield K. What is the best indicator of the harmful use of alcohol? A narrative review. Drug Alcohol Rev. (2020) 39:624–31. doi: 10.1111/dar.13053, PMID: - DOI - PubMed

[10] Rehm J, Crépault JF, Wettlaufer A, Manthey J, Shield K. What is the best indicator of the harmful use of alcohol? A narrative review. Drug Alcohol Rev. (2020) 39:624–31. doi: 10.1111/dar.13053, PMID: - DOI - PubMed

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