Balhara Yatan Pal Singh, Sarkar Siddharth, Singh Prashant Kumar, Chattopadhyay Ankita, Singh Shalini
National Drug Dependence Treatment Center and Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India.
WHO Global Knowledge Hub on Smokeless Tobacco, ICMR - National Institute of Cancer Prevention & Research (NICPR), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India, India; Division of Preventive Oncology & Population Health, WHO Global Knowledge Hub on Smokeless Tobacco, ICMR - National Institute of Cancer Prevention &∼ Research (NICPR), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Ministry of Health &∼ Family Welfare, Govt. of India, India.
Asian J Psychiatr. 2023 Apr;82:103479. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2023.103479. Epub 2023 Jan 23.
Bihar Excise (Amendment) Act, 2016 was promulgated in the state and a complete prohibition on alcohol was declared within the state of Bihar. We aimed to assess the impact of the prohibition on extent and pattern of alcohol use in the state of Bihar using the National Family Health Survey data. We also compared the data from Bihar with the data for the whole country, its neighbouring states and the state of Gujarat. There was a 41.78% reduction in the proportion of men who reported alcohol use in Bihar. Among those who reported alcohol use proportion of those who used 'almost every day' reduced by 29.72%. There was a 69.56% reduction in the proportion of women in Bihar who reported alcohol use. There was a significant increase in proportion of men reporting use of tadi madi and country liquor. Since the prohibition of alcohol in the state of Bihar there has been a reduction in self-reported alcohol use among men and women. However, alcohol use continues to be reported in the state even after the prohibition. There are states in the country that have similar extent of alcohol use as compared to Bihar, despite lack of prohibition. This warrants a relook at the policy to address what the prohibition could not achieve.
2016年《比哈尔邦消费税（修正案）法案》在该邦颁布，比哈尔邦宣布全面禁酒。我们旨在利用全国家庭健康调查数据评估禁酒对比哈尔邦酒精使用程度和模式的影响。我们还将比哈尔邦的数据与全国、其邻邦以及古吉拉特邦的数据进行了比较。比哈尔邦报告饮酒的男性比例下降了41.78%。在报告饮酒的人群中，“几乎每天”饮酒的人所占比例下降了29.72%。比哈尔邦报告饮酒的女性比例下降了69.56%。报告饮用塔迪马迪酒和乡村酒的男性比例显著上升。自比哈尔邦禁酒以来，男性和女性自我报告的酒精使用量有所减少。然而，即使在禁酒之后，该邦仍有酒精使用的报告。该国有些邦尽管没有禁酒，但酒精使用程度与比哈尔邦类似。这就需要重新审视该政策，以解决禁酒未能实现的目标。
