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CADCA-NIAAA Underage Drinking

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Developed in partnership with the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, this video highlights research on underage drinking and includes steps that communities can take to tackle this problem.

CADCA-NIAAA College Drinking

Developed in partnership with the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, this video highlights the current research on excessive drinking/binge drinking on college campuses.

Strategizer 55 - Regulating Alcohol Outlet Density: An Action Guide

Strategizer 55, Regulating Alcohol Outlet Density: An Action Guide, outlines available evidence-based community prevention strategies shown to decrease the consequences associated with alcohol outlet density, the concentration of bars, restaurants serving alcohol, liquor and package stores in a given geographic area. The publication was developed by CADCA in partnership with the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

SAMHSA’s "We are the ones" PSA Video Contest

SAMHSA works closely with community coalitions throughout the United States to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's communities. Like you, we know that young adults are doing great things in their communities to prevent substance abuse and, in many ways, are key to sustaining our prevention efforts. Last week, SAMHSA launched a Public Service Announcement (PSA) video contest that focuses on the steps young adults can take to make a difference.

Alcohol Tax and Price Policies Decrease Alcohol-Related Morbidity and Mortality Outcomes

Over the last several decades of research, epidemiology studies indicate drinking alcohol as a risk factor for an array of injuries, diseases, and social injustices and a leading cause of morbidity (i.e., diseased condition or state) and mortality (i.e., death). Additionally, the published literature indicates a strong relationship between alcohol tax and price levels and alcohol sales, drinking, and alcohol-related morbidity and mortality outcomes. Based on these established relationships and literature, researchers Alexander Wagenaar, Amy Tober, and Kelli Komro hypothesized and found that a negative relationship exists between alcohol tax/price levels and alcohol-related morbidity and mortality.

Strategizer 54 - A Community’s Call to Action: Underage Drinking and Impaired Driving

Strategizer 54, A Community’s Call to Action: Underage Drinking and Impaired Driving, is meant to help prevention practitioners create multi-layered prevention and intervention strategies to curb underage drinking among teens, and to prevent impaired driving among young adults ages 21-24. Developed in partnership with Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Strategizer 54 provides the latest facts, strategies and resources that coalitions and MADD Affiliates can use to address these issues in their communities.

Early Intervention Proven to be Best Strategy for College Binge Drinking

The Penn State Live website this week reported on new “early intervention” research conducted by their own scholars that may help students from becoming binge drinkers.

SAMHSA Accepting Applications for Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act (STOP Act) Grants

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is accepting applications for up to a four year total of $15.6 million to fund STOP Act grants aimed at preventing alcohol use among underage youth in communities across the nation.

You’re Invited to Get in the Game with a Big Bowl Vote

The Super Bowl, which will be aired on NBC Feb. 5, is known for its commercials as much as the game itself. About 18 percent of the game and commercial viewers will be youth younger than 21 and will see alcohol related ads.

CDC Finds Binge Drinking Worse Among Adults than Previously Thought

The first issue of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2012’s Vital Signs includes the latest findings on binge drinking from the 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) which included combined landline and cellular telephone respondents.

Prevent Impaired Driving This Holiday Season

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood recently kicked off a nationwide crackdown on drunk driving coinciding with the 2011 winter holiday season. New data show drunk-driving deaths declined in 2010 in many parts of the country. However, the data also show that fatalities from alcohol-impaired driving crashes continue to account for one in three deaths on American roadways each year.

Coalitions in Action: Talbot County, Maryland

Communities with a large concentration of bars and liquor stores pose a risk to both young people and adults, increasing the likelihood for violence or alcohol-impaired driving. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Community Guide to Preventive Services has endorsed reducing alcohol outlet density as an effective strategy for reducing alcohol-related harms. CADCA member, the Talbot Partnership for Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse Prevention, in Maryland, has formed strategic community partnerships that have effectively reduced alcohol outlet density at the local level, proving that people have the power to make their neighborhoods healthier and safer.

Alcohol Justice Urges Members to Make Public Comments Against Four Loko Producers

Alcohol Justice, formerly Marin Institute, in California, has asked for health advocates to make public comments against Phusion Projects, makers of the infamous Four Loko beverages, and its proposed agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to discontinue marketing its new “supersized,” re-sealable containers.

CDC Reports Excessive Alcohol Consumption Cost the U.S. $224 Billion

The cost of excessive alcohol consumption in the United States in 2006 reached $223.5 billion or about $1.90 per drink, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

NIH Releases Clinician’s Guide for Screening Underage Drinkers

Based on just two questions from a newly released guide, health care professionals could spot children and teenagers at risk for alcohol-related problems. “Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for Youth: A Practitioner's Guide,” is now available from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health.

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