Influences on the drinking of heavier drinkers: Interactional realities in seeking to 'change drinking cultures'

Drug and Alcohol Review

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 13-21

  Room, Robin ^a,b,c   Callinan, Sarah ^a,d   Dietze, Paul ^d,e  

^a Centre for Alcohol Policy Research   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drinking culture; Pressure concerning drinking; Risky drinker; Social world

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955632318     PISSN: 09595236     EISSN: 14653362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dar.12283     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Measham F. The new policy mix: alcohol: harm minimisation, and determined drunkenness in contemporary society. Int J Drug Policy 2006;17:258-268.
2. Nicholls J. Time for reform? Alcohol policy and cultural change in England since 2000. British Politics 2012;7:250-271.
3. Task Force of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. A call to action: changing the culture of drinking at U.S. colleges. Rockville, MD: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 2002. Available at: http://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov/media/TaskForceReport.pdf (accessed December 2014).
4. Davies JD. Report of the board of inquiry into the operation of the liquor control act 1968. Melbourne: Parliament of Victoria, 1977.
5. Nieuwenhuisen J. Review of the liquor control act, 1968: report. Melbourne: Government Printer, 1986.
6. Zajdow G. Outsourcing the risks: alcohol licensing, risk and the making of the night-time economy. Curr Issues Crim Just 2011;23:73-94.
7. State of Victoria. Reducing the alcohol and drug toll: Victoria's plan 2013-2017. Melbourne: State of Victoria, Department of Health, 2012. Available at: http://docs.health.vic.gov.au/docs/doc/1D4BF7FF3C551C4DCA257AFD00707A93/$FILE/Reducing-AOD-toll.pdf (accessed December 2014).
8. Wooldridge M Alcohol culture change Q&A. Drink tank, March 6, 2014. Available at: http://drinktank.org.au/2014/alcohol-culture-change-qa/ (accessed December 2014).
9. VicHealth. Alcohol cultural change. Carlton, Vic.: VicHealth, 2014. Available at: http://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/Programs-and-Projects/Alcohol-Misuse/Programs/alcohol-cultural-change.aspx (accessed December 2014).
10. RICA. Winner 2010: award for communications strategy effectiveness. Glebe, NSW: Research Industry Council of Australia, 2010. Available at: http://researcheffectiveness.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/REA_2010_winner_QMR-John-Scott.pdf (accessed December 2014).
11. Chung F DrinkWise launches 'classy' campaign to change drinking culture. AdNews Newsletter, 26 February, 2014. Available at: http://www.adnews.com.au/news/drinkwise-launches-classy-campaign-to-change-drinking-culture (accessed December 2014).
12. Carter A, Hall W DrinkWise's cynical campaign shouldn't fool anyone. The Conversation, 28 February, 2014. Available at: http://theconversation.com/drinkwises-cynical-campaign-shouldnt-fool-anyone-23813 (accessed December 2014).
13. Olsson B Alcoholpolitikoch alcokoholens fenomenologi: uppfattningar som artikulerats i pressen. Alkoholpolitik 1990;7: 184-195. Presented as 'Alcohol policy and thephenomenologyof alcohol: conceptions articulated in the press' at the 16th Annual Alcohol Symposium, Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol, Budapest, 3-8 June 1990.
14. Levine HG. Temperance cultures: alcohol as a problem in Nordic and English-speaking cultures. In: Edwards G, Lader M, Drummond DC, eds. The nature of alcohol and drug-related problems. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992:16-36.
15. Azar D, White V, Bland S, etal. 'Something's brewing': the changing trends in alcohol coverage in Australian newspapers 2000-2011. Alcohol Alcohol 2014;49:336-342.
16. Room R. The impossible dream? Routes to reducing alcohol problems in a temperance culture. J Subst Abuse 1992;4:91-106.
17. Moore D. Beyond 'subculture' in the ethnography of illicit drug use. Contemp Drug Probl 2004;31:181-212.
18. Room R. Cultural aspects of and responses to addiction. In: El-Guebaly N, Carrà G, Galanter M, eds. Textbook of Addiction Treatment: International Perspectives. Milan, Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht & London: Springer, 2015:107-114.
19. Clark W. Places of drinking: a comparative analysis. Contemp Drug Probl 1988;15:399-445.
20. Room R. Normative perspectives on alcohol use and problems. J Drug Issues 1975;5:358-368.
21. Matthews S, Dietze P, Room R, Chikritzhs T, Jolley D. The social location of heavy episodic alcohol consumption in the Victorian population. Drug & Alcohol Review 2013;32:157-161.
22. Cahalan D, Room R. Problem drinking among American men. (Monograph No. 7). New Brunswick: Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, 1974.
23. Room R. Multicultural contexts and alcohol and drug use as symbolic behaviour. Addiction Research and Theory 2005;13:321-331.
24. MacLean S, Moore D. 'Hyped up': assemblages of alcohol, excitement and violence for outer-suburban young adults in the inner-city at night. Int J Drug Policy 2014;25:378-385.
25. Hitz D. Drunken sailors and others: drinking problems in specific occupations. Q J Stud Alcohol 1973;34:496-505.
26. Dietze P, Ferris J, Room R. Who suggests drinking less? Demographic and national differences in informal social controls on drinking. J Stud Alcohol 2013;74:859-866.
27. Hemström Ö. Informal alcohol control in six EU countries. Contemp Drug Probl 2002;29:577-604.
28. Joosten J, Knibbe RA, Derickx M, Hradilova Selin K, Holmila M. Criticism of drinking as informal social control: a study in 18 countries. Contemp Drug Probl 2009;36:85-109.
29. Ibanga AKJ, Adetula VAO, Dagona ZK. Social pressures to drink or drink a little more: the Nigerian experience. Contemp Drug Probl 2009;36:111-136.
30. Dietze P, Room R, Jolley D, Matthews S, Chikritzhs T. The adverse consequences of drinking in a sample of Australian adults. J Subst Use 2011;16:116-126.
31. National Health and Medical Research Council 2009. Australian guidelines to reduce health risk from drinking alcohol. Canberra: NHMRC, 2009. https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/_files_nhmrc/publications/attachments/ds10-alcohol.pdf
32. Skog O-J. The collectivity of drinking cultures: a theory of the distribution of alcohol consumption. Br J Addict 1985;80:83-99.
33. Room R. A note on observational studies of drinking and community response. In: Harford T, Gaines L, eds. Social drinking contexts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981:238-244. NIAAA Monograph No. 7, Publication (ADM) 81-1097.
34. AEF. Drunk driving prevention (1983-present). New York: Advertising Educational Foundation, 2003. Available at: http://www.aef.com/exhibits/social_responsibility/ad_council/2399/:pf_printable (accessed December 2014).
35. Cheezburger. Friends don't let friends, 2014. Available at: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/friends-dont-let-friends (accessed December 2014).
36. Flanagan CA, Elek-Fisk EM, Gallay LS. Friends don't let friends ... or do they? Developmental and gender differences in intervening in friends' ATOD use. J Drug Educ 2004;34:351-371.
37. Gusfield JR. Contested meanings: the construction of alcohol problems. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.
38. Wells S, Graham K, Purcell J. Policy implications of the widespread practice of 'pre-drinking' or 'pre-gaming' before going to public drinking establishments-are current prevention strategies backfiring? Addiction 2009;104:4-9.
39. Miller P, Pennay A, Droste N, etal. Patron Offending and Intoxication in Night-Time Entertainment Districts (POINTED). In: Manton E, Room R, Giorgi C, Thorn M, eds. Stemming the tide of alcohol: liquor licensing and the public interest. Canberra: Foundation for Alcohol Research & Education, 2014:211-223.