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Alcohol and Alcoholism 2008 43(6):612-613; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn087
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Medical Council on Alcohol. All rights reserved

What Are Appropriate Prevention Strategies, When Risky Single Occasion Drinking Is the Norm in the Young?

Comment on Gmel et al. "Who drinks most of the total alcohol in young men: risky single occasion drinking as normative behaviour," this issue, pages 692--697

Richard Müller

Former Director the Swiss Institute for Alcohol and Drug Problems, Lausanne Préverenges, Switzerland

E-mail: mueller_richard@bluewin.ch

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Alcohol consumption in Switzerland has long been monitored by the Swiss Institute of Prevention of Alcohol and other Drug Problems, the National Office for Public Health, and the Swiss Alcohol Board has published consumption data since the 18th century. The results of the subsequent analyses, published in various reports, revealed basically that Switzerland displays the pattern of a wine-consuming country with high mean alcohol consumption and a low frequency of ‘binge’ drinking. There are, however, clear differences between the cultural regions, so wine is consumed more in the Latin than in the German regions; beer . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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