Alcohol retail sales establishments may pose serious health and safety risks for
neighborhoods and communities. Research has shown that the number, density, location …

Objectives: Complementing the extensive research literature demonstrating that increased
alcohol outlet density is associated with excessive alcohol consumption and related harms …

Alcohol policy conventionally has been established at the national or regional, state and
provincial levels. Alcohol policy at any level is not actually limited to the regulation and …

Alcohol outlet oversaturation often exacerbates negative public health outcomes. Recently,
Baltimore City passed an extensive zoning rewrite (“TransForm Baltimore”) that sought to …

Local communities have begun using policy to affect the drinking environment itself as an
approach to reducing alcohol involved trauma. That is, policy is used to produce structural …

This article describes California community (city, county) uses of local powers and resources
to prevent alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems by managing AOD risk environments in …

The substantial health and economic costs of excessive alcohol consumption make its
reduction a major public health and economic concern. The Community Preventive Services …

In Wisconsin, many alcohol policies are regulated at the local level. To examine the
relationship between local policies, alcohol use and health outcomes, our team developed a …

Excessive alcohol use causes approximately 80,000 deaths in the United States each year.
The Guide to Community Preventive Services recommends reducing the density of alcohol …

There is a substantial literature around violence and alcohol outlets. Roman et al.(2008)
studied block groups in Washington, DC and found that increased densities of on-and off …