ReviewAlcoholism, clinical and experimental research2016
Alcohol Policies and Suicide: A Review of the Literature.
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 72 citations in OpenAlex.
- Alcohol Consumption Per Capita and Suicide: A Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2025Pooled it
- Impact of Alcohol Policies on Suicidal Behavior: A Systematic Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- Substance use and suicidal ideation and behaviour in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2018Pooled it
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- Safeguarding Experiences of People in Mental Distress, Police and Healthcare Practitioners: An Integrative Review.Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing · 2025Review
- Relations Between Proximal and Distal Predictors of Suicide Risk among College Students.Psychology of violence · 2025Article
- Evidence for Public Policies to Prevent Suicide Death in the United States.Annual review of public health · 2025Review
- Cannabis Policies, Cannabis, and Opioids in Suicide and Undetermined Intent Death.American journal of preventive medicine · 2025Article
- Alcohol restrictions and suicide rates in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic: results of a natural experiment.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- Global burden and trends of high alcohol use-related injuries from 1990 to 2030: a comprehensive assessment of self-harm and interpersonal violence, transport injuries, and unintentional injuries using global burden of disease 2021.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- Relationships of State Alcohol Policy Environments With Homicides and Suicides.American journal of preventive medicine · 2024Article
- Epidemiology of alcohol use disorder in the general population of Togo and Benin: the ALCOTRANS study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Commercial determinants of mental ill health: An umbrella review.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Protocol for creating a dataset of U.S. state alcohol-related firearm laws 2000-2022.PloS one · 2024Article
- Association of driving while intoxicated and suicide ideation and attempts in South Korea: a study in a nationally representative sample.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Men's Behavior and Communication in the Days Prior to a Suicide-A Psychological Autopsy Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Exposure to alcohol outlets and risk of suicidal behavior in a Swedish cohort of young adults.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2023Article
- Psychosocial and psychiatric factors preceding death by suicide: A case-control psychological autopsy study involving multiple data sources.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2022Article
- Comparing gender-specific suicide mortality rate trends in the United States and Lithuania, 1990-2019: putting one of the "deaths of despair" into perspective.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
Both intoxication and chronic heavy alcohol use are associated with suicide. There is extensive population-level evidence linking per capita alcohol consumption with suicide. While alcohol policies can reduce excessive alcohol consumption, the relationship between alcohol policies and suicide warrants a critical review of the literature. This review summarizes the associations between various types of alcohol policies and suicide, both in the United States and internationally, as presented in English-language literature published between 1999 and 2014. Study designs, methodological challenges, and limitations in ascertaining the associations are discussed. Because of the substantial between-states variation in alcohol policies, U.S.-based studies contributed substantially to the literature. Repeated cross-sectional designs at both the ecological level and decedent level were common among U.S.-based studies. Non-U.S. studies often used time series data to evaluate pre-post comparisons of a hybrid set of policy changes. Although inconsistency remained, the published literature in general supported the protective effect of restrictive alcohol policies on reducing suicide as well as the decreased level of alcohol involvement among suicide decedents. Common limitations included measurement and selection bias and a focus on effects of a limited number of alcohol policies without accounting for other alcohol policies. This review summarizes a number of studies that suggest restrictive alcohol policies may contribute to suicide prevention on a general population level and to a reduction of alcohol involvement among suicide deaths.
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