Retail Sales of Alcohol and the Risk of Being a Victim of Assault
Public Library of Science Medicine, Volume 5, Issue 5
PDF - http://medicine.plosjournals.org/archive/1549-1676/5/5/pdf/10.1371_journal.pmed.0050108-L.pdf
Russell Bennetts, Rachel Seabrook
"The relationship between alcohol sales, alcohol consumption patterns, and levels of violence is well established. In a meta-analysis of data from seven countries, Jason Bond and colleagues estimated that the fraction of violence-related injuries attributable to alcohol is between 28% and 43%. There is a stronger link between alcohol impairment and being a victim of violence than between alcohol impairment and suffering from accidental injuries."