Effective alcohol policies and lifetime abstinence: An analysis of the International Alcohol Control policy index.
June Yue Yan LeungSally CasswellKarl ParkerTaisia HuckleJose S RomeoThomas Graydon-GuyKarimu ByronSarah CallinanSurasak ChaiyasongRoss GordonNadine HarkerAnne Marie MacKintoshPetra Sylvia MeierGuillermo R ParajeCharles D H ParryPham Viet CuongPetal Petersen WilliamsStephen RandersonKaren Schelleman-OffermansGantuya SengeePerihan TorunWim van DalenPublished in: Drug and alcohol review (2022)
Our findings suggest that restricting alcohol marketing could be an important policy for the protection of alcohol abstention. The IAC policy index may be a useful tool to benchmark the performance of alcohol policy in supporting alcohol abstention in high and middle-income countries.