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PA ACTing on ALCOHOL ISSUES
Act 85 Legislative Report
ACT 85 BIENNIAL REPORT
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First report – February 2007
(subsequent: 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015)
Underage and High-Risk Drinking
 Current levels and trends – data
 Current programs
 Current science that better defines proven
prevention strategies
WHO RECEIVES IT?
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Senate – chairman and minority chairman
of the Law and Justice Committee
House of Representatives – chairman and
minority chairman of the Liquor Control
Committee
STATE AGENCY PARTNERS
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Pennsylvania State Police Bureau of
Liquor Control Enforcement (PSP, BLCE)
Pennsylvania Department of
Transportation (PennDOT)
Pennsylvania Department of Drug and
Alcohol Programs (DDAP)
Pennsylvania Department of Education
(PDE)
Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and
Delinquency (PCCD)
DATA COLLECTION
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PAYS – Grades 6, 8, 10 and 12
MTF – Monitoring the Future
AlcoholEDU – College/high school
Core Alcohol & Drug Survey –
College/high school
PSP, BLCE – Enforcement and education
DDAP
PennDOT
RAMP
PLCB Alcohol Education
THE BOTTOM LINE
Produced by the Pacific Institute for Research and
Evaluation with funding from the Office of Juvenile Justice
and Delinquency Prevention, March 2015
NATIONAL DATA
UNDERAGE DRINKING
ENFORCEMENT CENTER
http://www.udetc.org/index.asp
10TH GRADE LIFETIME ALCOHOL USE
COMMUNITY-LEVEL DATA
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PAYS
School: SAP, incidents (SRO), attendance,
nurse, guidance counselors, etc.
Law enforcement: local PD, UCR, AOPC,
youthful offender programs, MDJ, DA
Health: hospitals, ER, nurses or physicians
groups
Counseling centers
Treatment centers
STATE SUPPORTS LOCAL EFFORTS
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Evidence-Based Programs: Project
Northland, Project Alert, Too Good for
Drugs, etc.
Assessments: Alcohol EDU, PAYS, Core
Enforcement: Patrols, trainings, equipment
Education: Conferences, presentations,
materials
ACTIVITY
HOW?
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How have you worked with state agencies in
the past?
Optimistically, who would be a future state
partner?
What would you need to make this
partnership happen?
STATE SUPPORTS ENFORCEMENT
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High-visibility patrols
Undercover patrols
Cops in Shops
Educational programs
Technology
Hotline (1.888.Under21)
STATE SUPPORTS HIGHER ED
Educational
 Town-Gown strategic
planning
 RA Training
 BLCE – Choices
Interventions
 BASICS
 Bystander
 Harm reduction
http://www.controltonight.com/
STATE SUPPORTS LICENSEES
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Trainings:
 Owner/manager
 Server/seller
 Large venue
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Signage
Hospitality resources
STATE-SUPPORTED PROGRAMS
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Call the Shots
HERO (PLCB, PennDOT, PSP)
MADD’s Power of Parents®
Parents Who Host Lost the
Most
Talk to Them at Every Age –
They’re Listening (SAMSHA,
DDAP, EPIS, PLCB)
TALK TO THEM…
https://www.stopalcoholabuse.gov/statevideos/default.aspxhttps://www.st
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TRENDING - MEDIA
ALCOHOL AND THE TEEN BRAIN
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Brain still developing until mid-20s
Brain develops back (basic
functions) to front (executive
functions)
The front of the brain – the part
that controls judgment, planning,
decision-making, self-control –
develops last
These images
PHOTO’ SOURCE: SUSAN TAPERT, PHD, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
NON-LIQUID ALCOHOL
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FDA Clarifies Its Role on “Palcohol”
Smoking
ALCOHOL WITH STIMULANTS
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Stimulants combined with
alcohol have caused:
 walking blackouts
 hyper-vigilance
 anxiety
 heart palpitations
 psychosis-like episodes
 extreme mood swings
 alcohol poisoning
 other dangerous
consequences
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Adderall
COMBINING ALCOHOL & MARIJUANA
Data from 2005 and 2010
national surveys on alcohol
use showed:
 Simultaneous users were
more than twice as likely
to drive drunk than
alcohol-only users
 Simultaneous users were
nearly three times more
likely to suffer social
consequences from their
alcohol use
Journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental
Research, May 2015
ALCOHOL AND OCCUPATIONS
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Government
employees,
educators and health
care workers are
least likely to drink
heavily.
Hospitality and
construction workers
and miners are most
likely to drink heavily.
JUST ASK THE MARKETING PEOPLE
SUMMARY
Alcohol
 is the most-commonly used drug among
youth in the United States.
 is responsible for the deaths of about
4,300 underage persons each year.
 is consumed by about 33 percent of eighth
graders and 70 percent of 12th graders.
Feb. 25, 2015, American Journal of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health