Sally Casswell is a New Zealand academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the

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. She is a member of the

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Expert Advisory Panel on Drug Dependence and Alcohol Problems and is chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Global Alcohol Policy Alliance. She is a Fellow of the

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and an Officer of the

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Academic career

After a 1974

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titled '' 'Acute effects of cannabis intoxication' '' at the

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, Casswell moved to

, rising to full professor. Much of Casswell's work involves the public-health psychology, including issues such as alcohol regulation, recreational drug regulation and sugar taxes. She has argued in favour of a greater contribution of multinational alcohol companies to the costs of alcohol-related harms.

Selected works

* Beaglehole, Robert,

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, Richard Horton, Cary Adams, George Alleyne, Perviz Asaria, Vanessa Baugh et al. "Priority actions for the non-communicable disease crisis." The Lancet 377, no. 9775 (2011): 1438–1447. * Moodie, Rob, David Stuckler, Carlos Monteiro, Nick Sheron, Bruce Neal, Thaksaphon Thamarangsi, Paul Lincoln, Sally Casswell, and Lancet NCD Action Group. "Profits and pandemics: prevention of harmful effects of tobacco, alcohol, and ultra-processed food and drink industries." The lancet 381, no. 9867 (2013): 670–679. * Casswell, Sally, and Thaksaphon Thamarangsi. "Reducing harm from alcohol: call to action." The Lancet 373, no. 9682 (2009): 2247–2257. * Connolly, Gary M., Sally Casswell, JIA‐FANG ZHANG, and Phil A. Silva. "Alcohol in the mass media and drinking by adolescents: a longitudinal study." Addiction 89, no. 10 (1994): 1255–1263. * Casswell, Sally, Megan Pledger, and Rhonda Hooper. "Socioeconomic status and drinking patterns in young adults." Addiction 98, no. 5 (2003): 601–610. * Casswell, Sally, Megan Pledger, and Sarah Pratap. "Trajectories of drinking from 18 to 26 years: identification and prediction." Addiction 97, no. 11 (2002): 1427–1437.

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