ALCOHOL POLICY INFORMATION SYSTEM (APIS)

影响饮酒和相关行为的公共政策可能会影响一系列健康和社会结果。对各种与酒精有关的政策的影响的科学研究的进展取决于这些政策的衡量良好的指标。这一重要领域的研究受到政策信息可获得性和质量的限制。为与酒精有关的公共政策提供可靠信息的举措必须与美国异常复杂的酒精政策相抗衡。法律、法规和判例涉及酒精饮料生产、包装、运输、营销、税收、销售和消费的方方面面，以及与酒精有关的治疗和预防服务的融资和提供。其中许多政策是由各级政府(联邦、州、县和市)制定的。国家酒精滥用和酒精中毒研究所(NIAAA)开发了酒精政策信息系统(API)，以提供关于美国州和联邦两级与酒精有关的公共政策的权威、详细和可比的信息。API网站(http://alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov)是一个在线资源，向公众提供关于各种与酒精有关的公共政策的详细信息。API主要是作为研究人员的工具，其特点是汇编和分析与酒精相关的法规和条例。APIs旨在简化为研究与酒精有关的政策的效果和效力而确定法律状况的过程。

Public policies that affect alcohol consumption and related behaviors can influence a range of health and social outcomes. Advances in scientific research on the effects of various alcohol-related policies depend on well-measured indicators of these policies. Research in this important area has been constrained by limitations on the availability and quality of policy information. Initiatives to provide reliable information on public policies relating to alcohol must contend with the extraordinary complexity of alcohol policy in the United States. Laws, regulations, and jurisprudence address myriad aspects of alcoholic beverage production, packaging, transportation, marketing, taxation, sales, and consumption, as well as the financing and delivery of alcohol-related treatment and preventive services. Many of these policies are established by governments at all levels (Federal, State, county, and municipal). The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) developed the Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS) to provide authoritative, detailed, and comparable information on alcohol-related public policies in the United States at both the State and Federal levels. The APIS web site (http://alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov) is an online resource that provides public access to this detailed information on a wide variety of alcohol-related public policies. Intended primarily as a tool for researchers, APIS features compilations and analyses of alcohol-related statutes and regulations. APIS is designed to simplify the process of ascertaining the state of the law for studies of the effects and effectiveness of alcohol-related policies.