McCambridge Jim, Kypri Kypros, Miller Peter, Hawkins Ben, Hastings Gerard
Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Addiction. 2014 Apr;109(4):519-24. doi: 10.1111/add.12356. Epub 2013 Oct 28.
In 2006, Drinkaware was established as a charity in the United Kingdom following a memorandum of understanding between the Portman Group and various UK government agencies. This debate piece briefly reviews the international literature on industry social aspects organizations, examines the nature of Drinkaware's activities and considers how the public health community should respond. Although the British addiction field and the wider public health community have distanced themselves from the Portman Group, they have not done so from Drinkaware, even though Drinkaware was devised by the Portman Group to serve industry interests. Both long-standing and more recent developments indicate very high levels of industry influence on British alcohol policy, and Drinkaware provides one mechanism of influence. We suggest that working with, and for, industry bodies such as Drinkaware helps disguise fundamental conflicts of interest and serves only to legitimize corporate efforts to promote partnership as a means of averting evidence-based alcohol policies. We invite vigorous debate on these internationally significant issues and propose that similar industry bodies should be carefully studied in other countries.
2006年，在波特曼集团与英国各政府机构达成一份谅解备忘录后，“饮酒意识”（Drinkaware）在英国作为一家慈善机构成立。这篇辩论文章简要回顾了关于行业社会层面组织的国际文献，审视了“饮酒意识”活动的性质，并思考公共卫生界应如何应对。尽管英国成瘾领域及更广泛的公共卫生界已与波特曼集团保持距离，但他们并未与“饮酒意识”疏远，即便“饮酒意识”是由波特曼集团设计以服务行业利益的。长期及近期的发展均表明行业对英国酒精政策有着极大影响，而“饮酒意识”就是施加影响的一种机制。我们认为，与“饮酒意识”这样的行业机构合作并为其服务，有助于掩盖根本的利益冲突，只会让企业将促进合作作为规避基于证据的酒精政策的手段的努力合法化。我们邀请就这些具有国际重要性的问题展开激烈辩论，并提议应在其他国家仔细研究类似的行业机构。
