Legislative control of alcohol use: Is it an unmet need of public health policy? Recommendations for India and other developing nations
Background: Even though prevalence of alcohol use in the world is very high, it has not been brought under legal control contrary to other substances like opium, cocaine, cannabis, etc. Aim: To demonstrate similarities in both alcohol and opioid dependence by comparing and contrasting the course of clinical dependence and arguing for similar legal controls for alcohol as is present for opioids. Conclusion: This study recommends alcohol to be treated at par with opioids and calls for legislations for the control of alcohol uniformly across the world, as a public health policy, on the lines of the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control.
countries with civil law systems such as those in Indonesia, fettered by the dogmatic paradigm led to the application of normative-legal formalities are usually constrained problem. Though many variations of crimes not yet covered by the rule of positive law in this country. Moreover, many legal rules that were tumpan provisions overlap with another rule of law. So it is not uncommon in a world of justice, the judge's decision with regard to the issue raised controversy in the community. If this happens, efforts to conduct groundbreaking law was supposed to be done with the use of methods that are in line with the concept of handling the legal problems that occur. This is important, including in dealing with certain criminal cases, especially criminal pencuciang money using the method of proof process of reversal of the burden of proof (omkering van de bewijslast).