Relationships of State Alcohol Policy Environments With Homicides and Suicides.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Alcohol use is involved in a large proportion of homicides and suicides each year in the U.S., but there is limited evidence on how policies targeting alcohol influence violence in the U.S.

Context

Extant studies generally focus on individual policies in isolation of each other. This study examines the impacts of changes in states' alcohol policy restrictions on overall homicide and suicide rates and firearm-related homicide and suicide rates using a holistic measure of states' alcohol policy environments.

Methods

Using a composite measure of state-level alcohol policies (Alcohol Policy Scale) and data from the National Vital Statistics System from 2002 to 2018, this study applied a Bayesian time series model to estimate the impacts of alcohol policy chan

SUBMITTER: Murphy JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12333600 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature