title: Response to the Distilled spirits Industry Council of Australia Inc. position paper 'Alcohol Availability'.
abstract: A critique is offered of the Distilled Spirits Industry Council position paper 'Alcohol Availability'. It is argued that this position paper presents a simple-minded analysis of the complex relationship between the availability of alcohol and its consumption which pays no attention to the importance of price in determining consumption. As a consequence, it misconstrues the lessons to be drawn from the Victorian experiment in liberalization and fails to consider its implications for the incidence of alcohol related problems.
authors.affiliation: National Centre for Research into the Prevention of Drug Abuse, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box UI987, Perth, Western Australia, 6001, Australia.
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authors.lastname: Hawks