Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends enhanced enforcement of laws prohibiting sale of alcohol to minors to limit underage alcohol purchases. More research is needed to determine how changes in retailer behavior affect underage drinking. Intervention…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends the use of regulatory authority (e.g., through licensing and zoning) to limit alcohol outlet density as a strategy to reduce excessive alcohol consumption and related harms. Intervention Regulation of alcohol…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends increasing the unit price of alcohol by raising taxes to reduce excessive alcohol consumption and related harms. Public health effects are expected to be proportional to the size of the…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding On the basis of strong evidence, the Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends maintaining existing limits on the days on which alcoholic beverages are sold, as one strategy for the prevention of excessive alcohol consumption and related…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends maintaining limits on hours of alcohol sale in on-premises settings, based on sufficient evidence of effectiveness for reducing excessive alcohol consumption and related harms. Two separate analyses were conducted to…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) finds insufficient evidence to determine whether overservice law enforcement initiatives reduce excessive alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harms. Intervention Overservice law enforcement initiatives are proactive community efforts to increase the enforcement of laws…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) concludes that dram shop liability prevents and reduces alcohol-related harms. Intervention Dram shop liability laws mean that if a customer buys a drink, leaves that location, and then causes harm,…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) finds insufficient evidence to determine whether responsible beverage service (RBS) training programs reduce excessive alcohol consumption and related harms at the community level. Although results were generally favorable, the majority of the…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding Based on its charge to identify effective disease and injury prevention measures, the Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends against the further privatization of alcohol sales in settings with current government control of retail sales. This finding…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends electronic screening and brief intervention (e-SBI) to reduce self-reported excessive alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems. Intervention Electronic screening and brief intervention (e-SBI) to reduce excessive alcohol consumption uses electronic devices…