Stores in the US are limiting how many rolls of toilet paper customers may purchase, yet many are walking out with cartloads of alcoholic ...
Child abuse cases may also be on the rise – while national data is not available, a hospital in Fort Worth, Texas that usually sees eight such cases in a month saw six in a week.
What this suggests is that during the coronavirus crisis, people are putting in place patterns of heavier drinking that will show up in future higher rates of alcohol use disorders.As governors declare alcohol sales essential, cities can still use policy levers to flatten this curve of problems from alcohol use.
The remaining 24 cities lack control, because they are preempted from it by state laws that prohibit local action, or because they have not expressly taken such authority in their city codes. The US Task Force on Community Preventive Services concluded that limiting both the density of outlets and the hours and days they may sell are effective measures for reducing alcohol problems.
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