Alcohol Controversies
75 Years Ago...
Learn how various states responded to Prohibition and Repeal.
Suicide Rates and Alcohol Consumption
Analyses of changing suicide rates and alcohol consumption rates for over 50 years in the U.S. found no association between the two rates. Neither total per capita alcohol consumption rate nor specific alcoholic beverage (beer, wine or distilled spirits) per capita consumption rates were correlated with suicide rates.
Alcohol Breath Tester Mistakes Poisoning for Alcohol Intoxication
An alcohol breath analyzer or tester falsely identified a victim of methanol poisoning as being intoxicated by beverage alcohol, leading to a false diagnosis and delay in providing proper treatment.
Drinking Alcohol and Income, Education, and Social Class or Status
Consumption of alcoholic beverages is associated with income, educational level, social class or status and other demographic factors such as gender, race, geographic region and religion.
Blue Laws vs. Sunday Alcohol Beverage Sales: The Scientific Evidence
Sunday package alcohol sales do not increase alcohol-related traffic crashes or fatalities and do not pose a heath hazard. Sunday sales may reduce heavy drinking on Saturdays, thereby providing a health benefit, according to scientific research.
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- Why Don’t Alcoholic Beverage Containers have Nutritional Labels like other Food and Beverage Containers?
- How Much Does Alcohol Cost Society?
- Blacking Out (Blackouts), Passing Out (Unconsciousness), and Rape Allegations
- Impulsivity in Problem Gamblers and Alcohol-Dependent Persons
- Harm Reduction Program for Binge Drinking
- Alcohol Cannot be Used as Excuse for Domestic Abuse, Sexual Assault
- Alcohol Intoxication in Rape Allegations and Legal Defenses
- The Economic Cost of Alcohol: Estimates for California
- Medical Amnesty or Good Samaritan Alcohol Policies at Colleges & Universities
- Genetics and Early Age of Drinking
- Will Prohibition’s Repeal Soon be Completed?
- Alcohol Consumption and Attitudes to Violence among College Students
- Will Prohibition’s Repeal Soon be Completed?
- Alcohol Abuse is NOT Trivial or Funny
- Beverage Alcohol Labeling: Public Opinion Strongly Supports Alcohol Content and Nutritional Labels
- Georgia Legislator Blasts Blue Laws
- Crime and Alcohol Consumption Down After 24-Hour Drinking Laws Established
- Laws Discourage Young Designated Drivers
- States Consider Restoring the Minimum Legal Drinking Age to 18
- Standard Drinks and Alcohol Equivalence: What They Are and Why They’re Important
- Alcohol Smuggling Costs Taxpayers
- Separate Personal Opinion from Biblical Teachings on Alcohol, Says Minister
- Alcoholic Beverage Laws: What’s Illegal May Surprise You
- Alcoholic Beverage Laws Often Confuse Even Law Enforcement Officials
- Why Is It Illegal to Make Your Own Liquor (Moonshine) but Not Your Own Beer or Wine?
- Gin Makes You Cry, Bubbly Makes You Flirt, Tequila Makes You Violent: Alcohol Myths?
- Sunday Alcohol Sales Bans: Blue Laws Indefensible
- Ineffective DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Program Remains Popular
- Alcohol Advertising and the Marin Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems
- Does Beginning to Drink at an early Age CAUSE Later Alcohol Abuse or Other Problems?
- Neo-Prohibitionism and Neo-Prohibitionists
- George Washington: His New Nation’s Largest Whiskey Distiller
- Was Prohibition Really a Success?
- Anti-Drinking Ads: Give It to 'em Straight
- Alternatives to the Failed DARE Program
- CASA Built on Falsehood, Not Fact
- Restricting Alcohol Isn’t Preventing Problems
- Handbook for Responsible Alcohol Consumption
- Drunkenness, not Alcohol, is the Problem
- Alcohol Ads Don’t Target Underage Youth, Research Study Finds
- Thoughts on Underage Drinking
- Facing the Grim Facts of Teen Prohibition
- State Attorney General’s Teen Alcohol Campaign
- Dissenting Ideas on New Teen Brain Science
- Historic Paris Wine Tasting of 1976 and Other Significant Competitions
- Ten Facts about Collegiate Binge Drinking
- National Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) Day
- “Beer Before Liquor, Never Beer Sicker”
- Alcoholic Beverage Ads and Portrayals on TV
- Neo-Prohibitionism in the United States
- DRY COUNTIES
- “More Alcohol Ads Lead to More Consumption”
- Increasing Alcohol Prices Unlikely to Reduce Consumption
- Practical Guides for Alcohol Policy Development or Improvement
- Repeal of Prohibition in the U.S.
- Eating Together as a Family and Reducing Youthful Drug Use
- Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) or Monopoly States
- Temperance Movement Groups and Leaders in the U.S.
- JAMA’s Discredited Alcohol Articles
- Alcohol, Advertising, and Youth
- Favorite Alcoholic Beverages: Presidents to Paupers
- CAMY: Fewer Alcohol Ads are Always Still Too Many Alcohol Ads
- Legal Issues in Alcohol and Drinking
- Parents, Alcohol and Children: The American Medical Association (AMA) Speaks Out
- Alcohol is a Drug
- “Alcohol is a Poison”
- "Alcohol Merchandise Encourages Underage Drinking"
- Candy Lightner: Founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
- Alcohol Consumption and Density of Liquor Stores and other Retail Sales Outlets
- Economic Issues in Alcohol: Marketing, Business & Money
- Alcoholic Beverage Consumption in the U.S.: Patterns and Trends
- Is the Minimum Legal Drinking Age a Violation of Civil Rights?
- Controlling Your Drinking: A Practical, Proven Approach
- Statistics on Alcohol (Drinking, Driving, Underage, Abuse) Often Misleading
- Alcohol Laws and Regulations often Problematic
- History of Alcohol and Drinking around the World
- "It is illegal to buy or possess alcohol if you are under 21."
- Alcohol, Drinking, Driving, and the Law
- Joe Califano and his Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA)
- Abstaining from Alcohol: Abstainers, Teetotalers, or Non-Drinkers
- Underage Alcohol Drinking Costs
- Alcoholics Can Recover from Alcoholism & Drink in Moderation
- AMA’s Alcohol Information and Statistics
- Alcohol and the Bible
- Alcohol and Sexual Assault: The Connection
- The Economic Costs of Alcohol Abuse
- DWI/DUI: Socially and Legally Unacceptable Crimes
- The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Alcohol, & Prohibition
- Alcoholic Content of Beer, Wine & Distilled Spirits
- The American Whiskey Trail
- Alcohol Advertising Facts and Information
- “A Matter of Degree” Program to Prevent Alcohol Abuse is Ineffective
- Alcohol Abuse: The Economic Costs
- Underage Kids or Military Heroes?
- National Prohibition of Alcohol in the U.S.
- French Wine Producers and Consumers
- French Grocers Sell Beer, Wine and Distilled Spirits
- Explosion of Alcohol Ads on Cable Television
- Federal Government Research: Can It be Trusted?
- Alcohol Research and Statistics: Deceptive Reports
- Government Attacks Drinking with Junk Science
- Center for Science in the Public Interest on Drinking and on Smoking
- Blue Laws
- Counterproductive and Dangerous Alcohol Policy
- TV Ads for Beer, Wine, and Distilled Spirits
- Alcohol Abuse: Who's to Blame?
- Alcohol and Health: Should the Public Know the Truth?
- The United States of Prohibition
- Alcohol and Energy for the Body
- 2/3 College Undergraduates are Legal Age to Drink
- Alcohol-Related Doesn't Equal Alcohol-Caused
- Alcoholic Beverages are Foods
- Who Wants Alcohol Prevention?
- Drinking Alcohol and Domestic Abuse
- What's Wrong with the Alcohol Industry
- Alcohol is a Solvent
- Government's "Alcohol Information"
- Benefits of Moderate Drinking Result from Alcohol Itself
- Early Onset of Drinking: What Research Says & What Anti-Alcohol Activists Say It Says
- Free Alcohol Screening
- Swedish Experience with Alcohol
- Speakers on Alcohol & Drinking Issues
- Alcohol and Business
- Dare to Drop D.A.R.E & Replace It with an Effective Program
- Are Young People Responsible for Drinking?
- The Alcohol Drinking Exception for Adults
- Alcohol Scare Tactics Work
- Liquor and Beer Ads Are Not the Problem
- Back Door to Prohibition: The New War on Social Drinking
- Alcohol: What’s a parent to Believe?
- Repeal of National Prohibition
- Alcohol Use and Abuse: How to “Lie” with Statistics
- Harvard Study of Social Norms Deserves "F" Grade for Flawed Research Design
- Religion and Alcohol Brain Damage
- Cost of Alcohol and Its Consumption
- This is Your Brain on Drugs
- Alcohol Ads Target Youth?
- Do "Alcopops" Reduce Heavy Drinking?
- Restoring Prohibition, drip by drip
- Selling Booze to Our Babies
- The Evidence for Prohibition
- Parents versus Alcohol Ads
- Most Americans Abstainers?
- Wechsler Keeps On
- Prohibition was a Success
- Alcool versus Alcohol
- A Junk Science Congregation
- Intoxication and Judgment
- Welfare Mothers and Alcohol Abuse
- Alcohol Abuse Statistics: A Report
- How Accurate are Statistics on Drinking Problems?
- Censorship in Science
- What Causes Alcohol Abuse
- Mixed Messages about Alcohol
- Alcohol and Drinking Problems
- Drinking Alcohol and Bad Behaviors
- Federal Agencies: Temperance Approach Toward Alcohol
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