Michael Livingston
Biographic Data
| ID | 178101 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Livingston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Livingston |
| SIGNATURE | LIVINGSTON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8995-9386 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 93 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 92 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A qualitative exploration of the Alcohol Harm Paradox – understanding experiences of alcohol-related harm among Australians of different socio-economic status
Background People living in disadvantaged areas experience disproportionately more harms from alcohol compared to those in advantaged areas, despite equivalent or less alcohol consumption. This is known as the ‘alcohol harm paradox’. This study explores how people who drink alcohol from areas of different socio-economic status (SES) describe and perceive the harms they experience from drinking to garner a deeper understanding of the mechanisms th…
Ten-year longitudinal study of incarceration among a community-based cohort of people who inject drugs
People who inject drugs are over-represented among incarcerated populations. However, there are few studies elucidating patterns of incarceration among people who inject drugs, especially among community-based cohorts. Furthermore, data on drug use and injecting risk behaviours in carceral settings are limited globally. We aimed to describe lifetime patterns of incarceration, as well as drug use and injecting risk behaviours while incarcerated, a…
The Cost of Poor Policy Implementation and Maintenance: The Northern Territory's Alcohol Floor Price
The Northern Territory's (NT) minimum unit price (MUP) imposed a minimum price point that retail alcohol could be sold from October 2018 [1]. The MUP was associated with unique reductions that could not be attributed to other alcohol policies in alcohol consumption [2], ambulance attendances [3], assaults [4] and emergency department presentations [5]. Two government-commissioned evaluations into the policy declared that it was successful in its …
The Impact of Northern Territory Alcohol Policy Changes on Adult Domestic and Family Violence Hospital Admissions
Changing Drug Consumption Patterns Among Clients Attending the Medically Supervised Injecting Centre, Sydney: Implications for Service Provision and Harm Reduction Response
An Observational Study of Off‐Premise Alcoholic Beverage Pricing Over Time in New South Wales, Australia
Illicit Alcohol in Victorian Off‐Licence Retailers: A Preliminary Observational Study
Using Mandatory Sales Reports to Monitor Same‐Day Alcohol Delivery Trends in New South Wales
Regional Variation in Alcohol Consumption in the Northern Territory: An Update
Risky Drinking in Midlife Men: Insights From Australia's National Drug Strategy Household Survey
Have declines in the prevalence of young adult drinking in English-speaking high-income countries followed declines in youth drinking? A systematic review
Risk versus pleasure: Understanding changing attitudes of non- and light-drinking young people as they age
Background There have been significant declines in alcohol use for adolescents in high-income countries since the mid-2000s. Research suggests key factors are driving this, including: (1) negative attitudes to alcohol, (2) concern about health, and 3) increased focus on risk aversion. The aim of this article is to understand whether and how these factors change as light drinking adolescents age into early adulthood.Methods Qualitative interviews …
Survey Questions on Quantity and Frequency Are Differentially Effective by Age in Predicting Future Alcohol Consumption
Local environments, accessibility and affordability: A qualitative analysis of alcohol purchasing across different socio‐economic areas in Victoria, Australia
Age, period and cohort trends in hospital admissions for alcohol‐related liver disease in Australia, 1993–2020
Does parental cohort increase the likelihood of underage alcohol consumption in Australia
What Happened to Alcohol Consumption in Australia During the Covid ‐19 Pandemic? Comparing Alcohol Consumption Measures
Analyses Updated to 2022–23 on Australian Attitudes Towards Supervised Injecting Facilities
The data that support the findings of this study are available from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for this study. Data are available from https://ada.edu.au/national-drug-strategy-household-survey/ with the permission of Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Excess Alcohol‐Induced Hospitalisations and Deaths During the First Year of the Covid ‐19 Pandemic in Australia
Youth drinking in decline: Recent developments and future priorities
The decline in young people's drinking across high income countries has been a topic of research for nearly a decade now, with studies clearly establishing declines in drinking across a range of measures and settings [1, 2]. Meanwhile efforts to pin down clear drivers of these trends or to better understand their longer-term implications have produced less consistent results [3]. As has been argued elsewhere, these significant changes have the po…
The market matters: Shifting the minimum unit price
In October 2018, the Northern Territory (NT) government of Australia set the minimum unit price (MUP) alcohol could be sold at AU$1.30 per 10 g of alcohol. This minimum price has remained the same for the last 5 years [1, 2]. The MUP was set at AU$1.30 in spite of recommendations from the key NT policy review of an AU$1.50 price point [3]. The price the MUP is set is critical to its effectiveness; if it is set too low it will have little impact o…
Examining the association between psychological distress and alcohol use in Australian adolescents over a period of declining consumption
How did Covid ‐19 restrictions impact alcohol consumption in Australia? A longitudinal study
Changes in Australians' attitudes towards supervised injecting facilities
Police‐recorded adult sexual assault in the Northern Territory, Australia: Alcohol involvement and alcohol policy effects
No one associates alcohol with being in good health: Health and wellbeing as imperatives to manage alcohol use for young people
Young people's drinking has declined markedly in Australia over the past 15 years, and this may be linked to changing norms and values around health. We take the view that healthism-a discourse that privileges good health and renders people personally responsible for managing health-has become pervasive, creating new pressures influencing young people's alcohol practices. Through interviews with 50 young light drinkers and abstainers, we explored…
The great decline in adolescent risk behaviours: Unitary trend, separate trends, or cascade
In many high-income countries, the proportion of adolescents who smoke, drink, or engage in other risk behaviours has declined markedly over the past 25 years. We illustrate this behavioural shift by collating and presenting previously published data (1990-2019) on smoking, alcohol use, cannabis use, early sexual initiation and juvenile crime in Australia, England, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the USA, also providing European averages where …
The Distribution of Customary Behavior in a Population: The Total Consumption Model and Alcohol Policy
The Distribution of Customary Behavior in a Population : The Total Consumption Model and Alcohol Policy
The density of alcohol outlets and adolescent alcohol consumption: An Australian longitudinal analysis
"Comment on "Local Interests, Central Leadership, and the Passage of TRA86
More Vinland maps and texts. Discovering the New World in Higden’s Polychronicon
Over four decades have passed since an antiquarian bookseller brought a medieval map to Yale University Library and set into motion a series of events that would end in a controversy that continues to this day: is the so-called Vinland Map real and, if so, what is its significance? This present essay seeks to contribute to the debates over the early mapping of America by investigating the possibility that the Vinland Map (regardless of authentici…
Changing the density of alcohol outlets to reduce alcohol‐related problems
Increasingly, it seems, legal and political debates regarding the granting of new liquor licences are turning to the issue of whether the number and density of alcohol outlets makes a difference in rates of alcohol consumption and alcohol‐related harm. But what is the state of the evidence on this question? In this Harm Reduction Digest Livingston, Chikritzhs and Room review the research literature on the effects of density of alcohol sales outle…
Mapping Paradise: A History of Heaven on Earth . Alessandro Scafi
Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity
Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity - Research and Public Policy Second Edition is a collaborative effort by an international group of addiction scientists to improve the linkages between addiction science and alcohol policy. It presents the accumulated scientific knowledge on alcohol research that has a direct relevance to the development of alcohol policy on local, national, and international levels. It provides an objective analytical basis on whic…
The Drinker’s Effect on the Social Environment: A Conceptual Framework for Studying Alcohol’s Harm to Others
The paper considers conceptual and methodological issues in studying the scope of alcohol's harm to others. Reasons are suggested for the relative neglect of the topic. The approaches in two relevant research traditions are considered: population surveys on alcohol problems, and economic cost of alcohol studies. Ways of conceptualizing and measuring aspects of the drinker's effects on others are considered, in terms of main types of relationship …
Larger Regional and Rural Areas in Victoria, Australia, Experience More Alcohol‐Related Injury Presentations at Emergency Departments
PURPOSE: Alcohol consumption is higher in regional and rural areas compared to metropolitan locations, but it is unclear which areas suffer different levels of harm. The current study investigated the rates of alcohol-related injury presentations at emergency departments (EDs) in Victoria, Australia, across metropolitan, regional, rural, and remote areas, and within coastal locations. METHODS: Using ED injury presentations data for Victorian hosp…
“The Depth of Six Inches”: Prince Hal’s Head-Wound at the Battle of Shrewsbury
The density of alcohol outlets and adolescent alcohol consumption: An Australian longitudinal analysis
Defining “drinking culture”: A critical review of its meaning and connotation in social research on alcohol problems
There has been growing academic interest in “drinking cultures” as targets of investigation and intervention, driven often by policy discourse about “changing the drinking culture”. In this article, we conduct a critical review of the alcohol research literature to examine how the concept of drinking culture has been understood and employed, particularly in work that views alcohol through a problem lens. Much of the alcohol research discussion on…
SimDrink: An Agent-Based NetLogo Model of Young, Heavy Drinkers for Conducting Alcohol Policy Experiments
Aggression and other acute harms experienced in the night-time economy are topics of significant public health concern. Although policies to minimise these harms are frequently proposed, there is often little evidence available to support their effectiveness. In particular, indirect and displacement effects are rarely measured. This paper describes a proof-of-concept agent-based model ‘SimDrink’, built in NetLogo, which simulates a population of …
The effects of extended public transport operating hours and venue lockout policies on drinking-related harms in Melbourne, Australia: Results from SimDrink, an agent-based simulation model
Comparative policy analysis for alcohol and drugs: Current state of the field
Qugax̂: An Ethnoscience Analysis of Ancient Unangax̂
For thousands of years, hunters and gatherers lived in the Aleutians with spiritual beliefs tightly interwoven into almost every aspect of daily life with help from Qugax̂ (spirits who assist). When Russian and Europeans arrived in Alaska in 1741, they wrote journals containing irreplaceable information about Unangax̂ (indigenous peoples of the Aleutians) before the subsequent onslaught of Russian fur hunters forever altered ancient belief system…
Flaying in the Pre-Modern World: Practice and Representation
The practice and the representation of flaying in the middle ages and after are considered in this provocative collection. Skin is the parchment upon which identity is written; class, race, ethnicity, and gender are all legible upon the human surface. Removing skin tears away identity, and leaves a blank slate upon which law, punishment, sanctity, ormonstrosity can be inscribed; whether as an act of penal brutality, as a comic device, or as a sig…
Queensland Alcohol-related violence and Night Time Economy Monitoring project (Quantem): A study protocol
The information gathered through this project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the Policy and to draw on these findings to inform future prevention and enforcement approaches by policy makers, police, and venue staff
The Distribution of Customary Behavior in a Population: The Total Consumption Model and Alcohol Policy
The Distribution of Customary Behavior in a Population : The Total Consumption Model and Alcohol Policy
The impact of OxyContin reformulation at the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre: Pros and cons
Long waves of consumption or a unique social generation? Exploring recent declines in youth drinking
Background: There is growing evidence for recent declines in adolescent alcohol use in the Western world. While these changes have been subject to scientific debate, the reasons for this downward trend are not yet understood.Method: We consider broader theoretical framings that might be useful in understanding declines in youth drinking. In particular, we reflect on the historical observations of ‘long waves of alcohol consumption’, the ‘Total Co…
Supranational changes in drinking patterns: Factors in explanatory models of substantial and parallel social change
Background: That there have been ‘long waves’ of consumption in parallel in different societies has previously been noted. Now there is a sustained drop in drinking among youth in most of Europe, Australia and North America. Can such changes be understood in a common frame? In terms of inexorable historical phenomena or forces, like Kondratieff waves? In terms of generational shifts, with a younger generation reacting against the habits of an old…
Effects of changes to the taxation of beer on alcohol consumption and government revenue in Australia
Why is adolescent drinking declining? A systematic review and narrative synthesis
Examining beverage‐specific trends in youth drinking in Australia before and after the implementation of the alcopops tax
Prevalence and sociodemographic factors of risky drinking in Australian older adults
Sports bars: Environmental design, drinking, and sports betting
Background Informed by literature on venue design and ‘nudging’ in the context of choice architecture, the purpose of this article is to investigate the physical design of, and practices enacted within, sports bars to provide some indication as to whether these venues are spaces that encourage risky drinking and betting.Methods Our analysis draws on three arms of data collection: (i) website review of licensed venues in Victoria, Australia that p…
Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (72 works) · Medicine (56 works) · Psychology (52 works) · Environmental health (44 works) · Sociology (30 works) · Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects (28 works) · Alcohol (27 works) · Demography (27 works) · Political science (27 works) · Poison control (24 works)