THE NEED FOR VALUES: SCIENCE AND ART IN ALCOHOL HARM REDUCTION
Addiction 102 (9), 1350–1351.




Giesbrecht has provided a stimulating assessment of current questions on the roles of education and persuasion interventions, and in essence his paper highlights the need to focus the debate on the values held by a society that are relevant to alcohol harm reduction.

It is these fundamental values that should provide the basis for policy making, and therefore discussion, clarity and transparency around this value set is an important first consideration.

The thinking of the American philosopher John Dewey is pertinent here : Dewey's work suggests that a successful democracy should be judged according to the extent to which it uses science to inform its decision making, coupled with a clear and substantive involvement of the public in the decision making process.
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