alcohol outlets and problems in baltimore: is there environmental support for high-risk drinking...
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Alcohol Outlets and Problems in Baltimore: Is there Environmental Support for High-Risk Drinking
Debra Furr-Holden, PhD and Mieka Smart, MHS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Parent Grant Funded by the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (PI, D Furr-Holden; 1-R01-AA015196)
Additional funding provided by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Youth Violence Prevention Center (PI, P Leaf;
1U49CE000728)
Baltimore City data provided by
The Baltimore City Mayor’s Office of Information Technology
And The Board of Liquor License Commissioners for Baltimore City
An extraordinary field data collection team!
C. Debra Furr-Holden, PhDAssistant Professor and Director
Drug Investigations, Violence & Environmental (DIVE) Studies LaboratoryJHU Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Mental Health111 Market PlaceBaltimore, MD 21202Suite [email protected]
Baltimore City has 277
ecologically defined
neighborhoods; 242 are
residential
There are 1,277
licensed alcohol
outlets in Baltimore
City
The Homewood Campus is
just north of Central
Baltimore City
Put into Perspective…..
There are 97 alcohol outlets within the 1-mile buffer around the Homewood Campus
There are 41 alcohol outlets within the 1-mile buffer around the worse block in East Baltimore
There are 33 alcohol outlets within the 1-mile buffer around the worse block in West Baltimore
There are 25 alcohol outlets within the 1-mile buffer around Martin O’Malley’s former residence
Information on the 97 Licensed Alcohol Outlets around the Homewood Campus
Among these 97 licensed alcohol outlets:
• One-third (30) sell packaged goods exclusively
• The other two-thirds (67) sell alcohol on premises
• Two-thirds (64) sell alcohol 7 days per week
– Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s 95 of the 97 outlets
sell alcohol 7 days a week
Calls for Service for ‘Intoxicated Person’ by Month in 2008 within 1-mile of the Homewood Campus
Potential Environmental Strategies
Decrease the number of alcohol outlets in the surrounding area
Quote from Scribner et al (2009) Given the limited number of modifiable factors that affect college drinking, on-premise outlet density represents a potential modifiable means of addressing the problem.
Article 2b of the Maryland State Law has provisions for the distance alcohol outlets can be from a church or a school, perhaps similar legislation is needed to protect college students.
Enforcement