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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Subst Abuse Treat. 2018 May 3;90:57–63. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2018.04.014

Table 5.

Negative environmental effects of alcohol misuse

Theme Example Quote
Community re-entry “Yeah because they’re already punished, they’ve already done their time, when they come out there and they’re already pegged…I believe that…they [will] see the rewards, ‘man I’m finally getting something,’ you know, ‘I’m not being looked at, looked down at, ostracized,’…all these guys coming back and they say ‘hell with it, I’ll just keep on drinking.’”
Community effects of alcohol “This is alcohol related, let’s get something started to help them and in the right direction…because a lot of the people you see out in the streets, the problem began in the villages…I know it began with me in the village.”
“I see a lot of children that grow up like that where their parents go out once and a while and they’re having a drink and having a good ‘ol time and the children are like ‘oh, that looks like fun’ and then they want to try it and they get addicted and get stuck…”