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Report of the Panel: Introduction
Report of the Panel: Introduction
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Medical intervention, regulatory action, law enforcement, commercial activity, and moral mobilization have all played a role in shaping the contemporary context in which alcohol policy is managed. Given the divergent circumstances of these different responses, there is much honest intellectual disagreement about the nature of the problem, about what information is relevant, and about how to interpret relevant information.
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The seemingly inevitable connection of the temperance movement with Prohibition and the disease model of alcoholism with Alcoholics Anonymous furnish convenient, familiar examples. If only one or a small number of potent governing ideas exists in a policy area, any search for alternatives may be reduced to a very narrow range of all-or-none (or all-of-one versus all-of-the-other)
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Chapter 2 develops a complex conception of alcohol use and its effects, which seeks to hold the moral qualities of drinking to one side while it explores the underlying causal systems. Chapter 3 critically reviews current policy approaches in light of the historical experience and the complex conception of the problem, and in light of institutional and normative factors that need to be taken into account.
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