Alcohol Outlets and Problems in Baltimore: Is there Environmental Support for High-Risk Drinking Debra Furr-Holden, PhD and Mieka Smart, MHS.

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