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MEDICC Review 2010; 12 (4)

Alcohol harm: Beyond the body to the body politic

González R

Language: English
References: 17
Page: 30-33
PDF size: 126.89 Kb.


ABSTRACT

In light of the World Health Organization’s declaration that nondependent drinking contributes more to the global burden of alcohol-related disease than does drinking by those who meet diagnostic criteria for dependence, this paper argues that clinicians, researchers and decision-makers need to consider microsocial and macrosocial impacts of alcohol use, not just addiction and clinical effects on individuals meeting diagnostic criteria at the extreme high end of the alcohol-use spectrum. It suggests some qualitative dimensions to further define social or low-risk drinking and proposes that all drinking beyond that be described as harmful, because of its impacts on personal, community and population health.


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