Reducing the harm associated with alcohol consumption

Abstract

This document presents the summary and recommendations of the work of a group of experts brought together by the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) as part of the collective expertise procedure. In response to a request by the Interministerial Mission for Combating Drugs and Addictive Behaviors (Mildeca) and the French Ministry of Health, Inserm carried out this collective expertise examining the reduction of harm associated with alcohol consumption, prevention strategies and support.This work is primarily based on data from the scientific literature available in the first half of 2020. Nearly 3,600 documents were compiled through the interrogation of different databases (PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, SocINDEX, Cairn, Pascal, Francis, EconBiz, JSTOR, OpenEdition Journals, Isidore, Persée; see Annex 2).This report was coordinated by Collective Expert Reports Unit of Inserm, which is part of its Public Health Thematic Institute.It was translated into English from the original French version of the collective expert report published in June 2021.