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Norman Giesbrecht
Researcher at Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Publications - 235
Citations - 5974
Norman Giesbrecht is an academic researcher from Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Population. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 231 publications receiving 5578 citations. Previous affiliations of Norman Giesbrecht include University of Toronto & Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.
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Collateral damage from alcohol: implications of 'second-hand effects of drinking' for populations and health priorities.
TL;DR: It is hypothesized that there are a number of reasons for the current situation including public perceptions about alcohol’s health benefits, the high prevalence of drinkers in many countries, normalization of drinking and integration of its use into many situations, cosy relationships between governments and alcohol industries and aggressive marketing of alcohol products.
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Public opinions on alcohol policy issues: a comparison of American and Canadian surveys
TL;DR: Public opinion data are an important resource in determining whether actual policies are compatible with the views of those affected by them, andjunctions between research on the most effective policy interventions and views by the public point to special agenda for information dissemination and prevention initiatives.
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Acute alcohol use and the risk of non-fatal injury in sixteen countries.
Guilherme Borges,Cheryl J. Cherpitel,Ricardo Orozco,Jason Bond,Yinjiao Ye,Sheila Macdonald,Norman Giesbrecht,Tim Stockwell,Mariana Cremonte,Jacek Moskalewicz,Grazyna Swiatkiewicz,Vladimir Poznyak +11 more
TL;DR: Policy measures addressed to the general population are recommended, especially in societies with riskier consumption patterns, as acute alcohol was a risk factor for non-fatal injuries in most sites.
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Externalities from Alcohol Consumption in the 2005 US National Alcohol Survey: Implications for Policy
TL;DR: Being unmarried, older, white and ever having monthly heavy drinking or alcohol problems was associated with more alcohol externalities, and publicizing external costs of drinking could elevate political will for effective alcohol controls.