Alcohol Sales, Risk of Violence Related, Study Says / Join Together, 15 May 2008
http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2008/alcohol-sales-risk-of.html
"Researchers compared sales at government-run liquor stores in Ontario -- where most alcohol in the province is sold -- to hospital records of admissions for violent assault. They found that the risk of being hospitalized as an assault victim rose 13 percent for every doubling of alcohol sales at local stores."
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