Obvious intoxication isn't so obvious

摘要

Selling alcoholic beverages to obviously intoxicated patrons at both on-premise (e.g., bars, restaurants) and off-premise (e.g., liquor stores) establishments is illegal in the U.S. (Mosher et al., 2009). Recent investigations have posited that enforcement strategies to prevent sale of alcoholic beverages to obviously intoxicated patrons (i.e., overservice) are an underutilized method of reducing alcohol-related problems such as impaired driving (Lenk, Toomey, Nelson, Jones-Webb, & Erickson, 2013). Although systematic reviews of current strategies have reported that there is limited evidence that premise-level interventions will reduce patron intoxication (Brennan, Moore, Byrne, & Murphy, 2011), reducing the intoxication levels of bar patrons and the associated alcohol-related consequences that accompany intoxication does represent a significant public health problem which requires novel approaches.