Moderating binge drinking among young people remains a major health policy focus of European Union (EU) member states. Risk perceptions toward alcohol are an important predictor of consumption behavior. We analyze how alcohol policies and various sources providing information about alcohol's...

This paper estimates the external costs of harmful alcohol use in the European Union (EU) and confronts them with the alcohol excise duty collections per adult and per litre of pure alcohol in the various Member States. In all but one Member State, drinkers do not appear to pay their way. This...

In the present paper an empirical analysis will point out econometrically with panel data that alcohol consumption causes criminal actions, thus supporting the view of (Anderson and Baumberg, 2006). The sample covers Western Europe. Data are taken from OECD and Eurostat. The elaboration of these...

Este trabajo quiere introducir una reflexión en torno al contexto de análisis que se abre en torno al alcohol, el tabaco y los fármacos, el de las políticas públicas. Frente al ámbito de política criminal que ha de abordarse en el tratamiento de las drogas denominadas ilegales, las...