David J. Hanson
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David Justin Hanson, Ph.D., (born 1941) is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the State University of New York at Potsdam, N.Y., U.S.A.. Hanson researched the subject of alcohol and drinking for over 30 years, beginning with his Ph.D. dissertation investigation and has written widely on the subject.
Hanson is often a critical and countervailing voice against prevailing views on alcohol use and consumption. He contends, for example, that the benefits of moderate drinking outweigh the harms from abusive drinking. [1]. Hanson is a critic of many groups that advocate for the reduction of alcohol use, who he describes as “neo-prohibitionist.”
Groups who have been criticized by Hanson include:
- Alcohol Policies Project of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
- American Council on Alcohol Problems
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
- Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA)
- Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY)
- Coalition for the Prevention of Alcohol Problems (CPAP)
- Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE)
- Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
- Marin Institute
- Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD))
- National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD))
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA))
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF))
Hanson criticizes what he calls the "temperance mentality" [2] of many of these groups and claims that "their tactic is to establish cultural rather than strictly legal prohibition by making alcohol beverages less socially acceptable and marginalizing those who drink, no matter how moderately." [3]
Hanson is a critic of the current 21-year-old age limit on drinking in the United States. He has sat on the Board of Advisors of the National Youth Rights Association since 1998.[1]
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[edit] Books by Hanson
- Hanson, David J. Alcohol education : what we must do / David J. Hanson. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1996. 154 p. ; 24 cm. ISBN 0-275-95561-3 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Hanson, David J. Preventing alcohol abuse : alcohol, culture, and control / David J. Hanson. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1995. xiv, 140 p. ; 24 cm. ISBN 0-275-94926-5 (alk. paper)
[edit] References
- ^ National Youth Rights Association - Board of Advisors NYRA website
