Resources
This section of the APIS website contains additional resources useful to researchers and others interested in alcohol policy. Please note that clicking on the links below may link you to an external website. The APIS (Alcohol Policy Information System) website has no control over the content of external websites. Resources include the following:
Resource Pages
The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends evidence-based strategies to prevent excessive alcohol use and related harms at the population level, including increasing alcohol taxes, regulating the number and concentration of places that sell alcohol, and having other policies that reduce the availability and accessibility of alcohol.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Guide
Alcohol Policy Taxonomy
The Alcohol Policy Taxonomy provides an inventory and taxonomy of alcohol policies. It is organized into policy areas in nine broad categories, and cross-cutting dimensions such as: Demographic Groups; Beverage Types; Penalties, Liabilities, and Incentives; Special Jurisdictions; and Other Dimensions.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s ARDI is an online resource that provides national and state estimates of alcohol-related health impacts, including deaths and years of potential life lost (YPLL).
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Guide
Cannabis Policy Taxonomy
The Cannabis Policy Taxonomy provides an inventory and taxonomy of cannabis policies. It is organized into policy areas in nine broad categories.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
The COVID Analysis and Mapping of Policies (AMP) visualization tool is a comprehensive database of policies and plans to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Decision-makers can use COVID AMP’s user-friendly interface to easily identify effective policies and plans to reduce the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Georgetown University Center for Global Health Science and Security (GHSS)
This section of the APIS website provides resources designed to assist researchers studying alcohol availability and sales during the COVID-19 pandemic, including a narrative Digest, a downloadable Dataset (with Codebook), and a link to a Surveillance Report presenting data on alcohol sales during the pandemic.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Dataset
COVID-19 Policy Tracker
States and localities pursued a variety of policies to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. Track policy activity here.
MultiState
Data to Measure the Outcomes of Policy Change
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Guide
Federal Cannabis Law
Overview of the approach taken by the U.S. government to the use of cannabis by its citizens.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
This section of the APIS website provides information about using legal data in conducting multidisciplinary evaluations for public health research.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
This monograph compares various indices of State alcohol taxes to determine whether there is a method for making cross-State comparisons of economic availability that is more precise than the specific excise tax (sometimes called the excise tax)—the varia
Michael Klitzner, Ph.D.
Dataset
LawAtlas
High-quality, open source legal data developed or curated by the Center for Public Health Law Research at the Temple University Beasley School of Law.
Center for Public Health Law Research at the Temple University Beasley School of Law
Guide
Legal Epidemiology
A growing body of evidence demonstrates legal epidemiology’s potential to drive change in the conditions where people live, work, and play.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
This section of the APIS website presents two papers designed to assist researchers in using APIS alcohol tax data in the design of research studies.
Michael Klitzner, PhD and Michael Hilton, PhD
Funding Resource
NIH Funding Opportunities for Research Studies Using APIS
This section of the APIS website provides information about funding opportunities administered through the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. These Notices of Special Interest and Funding Opportunity Announcements may be suitable for research projects that use APIS policy information.
National Institutes of Health
References
Peer-Reviewed Publications Using APIS Data
This section of the APIS website provides a listing of peer-reviewed publications that have made use of APIS data. The list includes publications that have appeared since the launch of the APIS website on June 23, 2003.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Training
Public Health Law Academy
A partnership between the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and ChangeLab Solutions that provides free resources and trainings to build the capacity of aspiring and practicing public health professionals at all levels of government.
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and ChangeLab Solutions
The Public Health Law Program (PHLP) develops and shares a growing portfolio of courses and other learning materials in applied public health law. https://www.cdc.gov/phlp/php/trainingandeducationalresources/index.html
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Certain States may have adopted laws legalizing the Recreational Use of Cannabis since the effective date of the most recent comprehensive update to the policy information on this website.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
This section of the APIS website provides information about the Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act (STOP Act), and its requirement of an annual Report to Congress on the consequences of underage drinking and Federal and State policies to prevent and reduce it.
Interagency Coordinating Committee on Preventing Underage Drinking
Dataset
State Medical Cannabis Laws
These databases cover topics related to state cannabis policy, including state regulations for medical cannabis programs.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; National Conference of State Legislatures
This section of the APIS website provides information about sources of data for measuring the outcomes of policy change, including: the Alcohol Epidemiologic Data Directory and U.S. Alcohol Epidemiologic Data Reference Manuals.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
The Cannabis Regulators Association is a nonpartisan association of government agencies regulating canabis and cannabinoids. Their mission is to convene, educate, and support government jurisdictions responsible for implementing cannabis and cannabinoid policies and regulations.
The Cannabis Regulators Association
The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) works to improve the health of communities by issuing evidence-based recommendations and findings on public health interventions designed to improve health and safety.
Community Preventive Services Task Force
This document was prepared by the Congressional Research Service (CRS). CRS serves as nonpartisan shared staff to congressional committees and Members of Congress. The Report describes the Federal Status of Marijuana and the Policy Gap with States.
Congressional Research Service
Measuring the taxes levied on alcoholic beverages is an important component of alcohol policy research because alcohol beverage prices (sometimes called economic availability) are a well- established determinant of consumption and related problems
Michael Klitzner, PhD and Michael Hilton, PhD
This section of the APIS website provides information about a longitudinal database offered by the American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation featuring a national collection of tobacco control ordinances, by-laws, and Board of Health regulations dating from the early 1980s to the present.