Contemporary Drug Problems: Special Issue on Injury Prevention & Alcohol Policy
This special edition of Contemporary Drug Problems (Vol. 25, No. 3, Fall 1998) features a collection of articles that explore the nature of drinking-related injuries and its implications for prevention-oriented policy development.
The plans for this collection were stimulated in part by a conference organized by the Alcohol Policy Network in November 1996 which sought to explore the links between alcohol and injuries and their implication for policy and programming.
The seven papers featured in this collection (edited by Norman Giesbrecht and Paula Neves) are organized in two parts. The first three (Robson et al., Pickett et al., and Degutis) provide an overview of the extent and nature of drinking related injuries. The remaining four are oriented toward prevention, policy and action.
The collection is comprised of the following papers:
- Editors' Introduction: Linking Injury Prevention and Alcohol Policy: Seeking a Common Agenda (Norman Giesbrecht and Paula Neves)
- The Cost of Alcohol-Attributable Injuries and Poisonings in Canada, 1992 (Lynda S. Robson, Eric Single, Xiaodi Xie and Jurgen Rehm);
- Surveillance of Alcohol-Related Injuries in Two Canadian Emergency Department Settings: An Analysis and Commentary (William Pickett, Lisa Hartling, Robert J. Brison, and Heather J. Grant);
- Screening for Alcohol Problems in Emergency Department Patients with Minor Injury: Results and Recommendations for Practice and Policy (Linda C. Degutis);
- Prevention of Alcohol-Related Violence (Kai Pernanen);
- Reducing Violence in Licensed Venues Through Community Safety Action Projects: The Queensland Experience (Marg Hauritz, Ross Homel, Gillian McIlwain, Tamara Burrows and Michael Townsley);
- Programs and Policies for Reducing Alcohol-Related Motor Vehicle Deaths and Injuries (Douglas J. Beirness, Herb M. Simpson, and Daniel R. Mayhew);
- Are Trade Agreements and Economic Co-operatives Compatible with Alcohol Control Policies and Injury Prevention? (Evelyn Vingilis, Richard Lote and Jane Seeley)
Injury prevention and alcohol policy fields of inquiry have often intersected and overlapped but have not always dialogued or shared a common policy agenda. It is hoped these papers will provide an opening for further discussion among researchers and practitioners active in the two fields.
Contemporary Drug Problems is a refereed scholarly journal that is published quarterly. Its scope includes alcohol and all other psychoactive drugs, licit and illicit. The journal's orientation is multidisciplinary and international; it is open to any research paper that contributes to social and epidemiological knowledge concerning drug use and problems.
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