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The analysis of the relationships between alcohol and various "high-risk" or "problematic" behaviours has focused upon measuring a connection.
Such a task is not easily carried out, as precisely defining the components of the relationship studied is required, as well as determining what population must be monitored in accordance with the theories suggested, and having suitable measurements.
The notions of cause, correlation, covariance, and cooccurrence must then be cautiously used. A lack of general theory about those issues eventually deprive them of any factual range. Without answering to such demands several surveys prove useless.
We shall see that studies in regard to drink-driving have provided actual progress as far as some of those aspects are concerned.