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  • Alcohol use presents significant public health harms and is heavily regulated.
  • Despite this, alcohol-related ethical considerations remain under-explored in public health ethics literature.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify and categorize ethical issues related to alcohol research and policy.
  • To inform future research directions in public health ethics concerning alcohol.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative study involving interviews with key informants in Australian alcohol research and policy.
  • Thematic analysis was employed to analyze interview data.

Main Results:

  • Six major themes of ethical issues were identified: research ethics, judgments about alcohol use, policy ethics, policy processes, policy aims, and defining alcohol problems.
  • Emerging ethical concerns include industry influence, stigma in research and policy development, and social justice issues linked to alcohol-related stereotypes.

Conclusions:

  • The study highlights critical gaps in public health ethics concerning alcohol.
  • It provides a framework and direction for future research on underexplored ethical problems in alcohol policy and research, emphasizing industry influence, stigma reduction, and social justice.