Is Alcohol an "Essential Good" During COVID-19? Yes, but Only as a Disinfectant!
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...A loosening of alcohol policies by allowing home delivery and online purchases of alcohol might have increased at-home drinking, at least in the rst months of the pandemic [38]....
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...…domestic violence under lock-downs, reduce the burden to the healthcare system from alcohol-related health emergencies and prevent the virus from spreading further as intoxicated individuals might not practice physical distancing and personal hygiene (Rehm et al., 2020, Nadkarni et al., 2020)....
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...…with some countries banning the sale of alcohol outright, and others formally declaring off-premises sales and alcohol delivery services to be “essential,” allowing for additional forms of delivery and weakened restrictions on its availability (Rehm et al., 2020, Reynolds and Wilkinson, 2020)....
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...All rights reserved three million deaths attributed to alcohol use each year (Shield et al., 2020)....
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...Although sales bans, especially total bans, can be problematic, they do follow the public health rationale and the existing evidence that reducing the availability of retail alcohol will result in less consumption and, therefore, less alcohol-related harm (Chisholm et al., 2018)....
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...…is mostly observed in marginalized individuals with alcohol use disorders, and factors like affordability and physical availability of these products, especially in times of crisis, play a key role in their consumption (Elton-Marshall et al., 2020, Lachenmeier et al., 2007, Neufeld et al., 2019)....
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"Is Alcohol an "Essential Good" Duri..." refers background in this paper
...…domestic violence under lock-downs, reduce the burden to the healthcare system from alcohol-related health emergencies and prevent the virus from spreading further as intoxicated individuals might not practice physical distancing and personal hygiene (Rehm et al., 2020, Nadkarni et al., 2020)....
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