Objective: Groups of potentially violent drinkers may frequent areas of communities with
large numbers of alcohol outlets, especially bars, leading to greater rates of alcohol-related …

Drug users have organized in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES) for decades to
change public health policy. People who use non-beverage alcohols and people who are …

Background Although valuable, national opinion surveys on alcohol policy may be less
informative for policy development at the local level. Using samples of adult residents in 2 …

LANCE SEGARS mong factors affecting levels of alcohol availability in a community are the
types and distribution of outlets selling alcoholic beverages. Recently, there have been …

This report investigates the relationship between alcohol availability, type of alcohol
establishment, distribution policies and violence and disorder at the block group level in the …

Objectives. Despite the increasing evidence of the associations between alcohol availability
and violence, there are still inconsistent findings on the effects of on‐and off‐sale alcohol …

Objective: This article reports the results of the Sacramento Neighborhood Alcohol
Prevention Project (SNAPP). SNAPP set as its goal the reduction of alcohol access, drinking …

Environmental strategies to prevent the misuse of alcohol among youth—eg, use of public
policies to restrict minors' access to alcohol—have been shown to reduce underage …

Increasing concerns regarding the cost of medical care have led to research that has found
a relationship between alcohol abuse, increased medical problems, longer hospital stays …

Community activists in Chicago believed their neighborhoods were being targeted by
alcohol and tobacco outdoor advertisers, despite the Outdoor Advertising Association of …