Current information on use and harm from alcohol in the South-East Asia Region

This document is a compilation of currently available information on alcohol related issues in Member States and will form the basis for design and development of policies and programmes to prevent alcohol-related harm in the WHO South-East Asia Region. It includes information on alcohol-related issues taken from publications of the World Health Organization including the WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol, the WHO Global InfoBase, documents published by the WHO South-East Asia Regional Office and reports from individual WHO Representatives' offices. Information from peer-reviewed journals was obtained from the Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health of the United States (‎PubMed)‎, and this has also been summarized and included in a country-wise, chronological order.