Williamson Laura
School of Law, University of Glasgow, 8 The Square, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
Clin Ethics. 2009 Jun 1;4(2):74-78. doi: 10.1258/ce.2008.008043.
Public policy on alcohol in the UK relies on health promotion campaigns that encourage individuals who misuse alcohol to make healthier choices about their drinking. Individuals with alcohol-dependence syndrome have an impaired capacity to choose health. As a result, individuals with the worst alcohol misuse problems lie largely outside the reach of choice-based policy. However, such policy has been widely criticized and efforts to reform it are underway. This paper argues that the British Medical Association's recent attempt to improve policy on alcohol in the UK by introducing strategies which have been shown to control drinking within populations still gives insufficient attention to alcohol dependence. This is because it fails accurately and consistently to characterize alcohol dependence and gives insufficient attention to the social challenges it presents.
英国关于酒精的公共政策依赖于健康促进运动，这些运动鼓励酗酒者在饮酒方面做出更健康的选择。患有酒精依赖综合征的人做出健康选择的能力受损。因此，酗酒问题最严重的人群基本上不在基于选择的政策范围之内。然而，这样的政策受到了广泛批评，改革的努力正在进行中。本文认为，英国医学协会最近试图通过引入已被证明能控制人群饮酒的策略来改进英国的酒精政策，但仍对酒精依赖关注不足。这是因为它未能准确且一致地描述酒精依赖，对其带来的社会挑战关注也不够。
