Estrategias preventivas del abuso de alcohol

Abstract

The prevention of problems associated with alcohol consumption continues to be a high priority public health issue in spite of a certain drop in global consumption, in particular because drunkenness at weekends continues to be a frequently found form of consumption. There is sufficient research, at the present time, to endorse the various measures being applied, the reduction of easy access to its consumption being one of the most efficacious. But other methods have also been shown to be useful such as reducing the association between driving and drinking and controlling advertising. There are classic measures such as prevention among schoolchildren that require further research directed, most of all, at endorsing the results. And, there are new actions directed specifically at diminishing the effects of problems derived from alcohol consumption, finding alternatives to going out to have fun and drinking alcohol or to intervention in recreational contexts both from the cultural point of view and the physical context that could be promising but which also require adequate evaluation.