Alcohol Availability and Alcohol‐Related Problems in 213 California Cities

Watts, Ronald K.; Rabow, Jerome

doi:10.1111/j.1530-0277.1983.tb05410.x

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“…The risk for relapse and adverse outcomes is especially a concern for individuals who misuse alcohol, a substance which is readily available and is the most common substance of abuse in the United States after nicotine [13]. For example, in the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication, about 13% of the US adult population were estimated to have a lifetime history of alcohol abuse and over 5% were estimated to have a lifetime history of alcohol dependence [14].…”

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Treatment seeking and barriers to treatment for alcohol use in persons with alcohol use disorders and comorbid mood or anxiety disorders

Kaufmann

Chen

Crum

et al. 2013

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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PURPOSE This study compared the prevalence and patterns of treatment seeking and barriers to alcohol treatment among individuals with alcohol use disorders (AUD) with and without comorbid mood or anxiety disorders. METHODS We used data from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions to examine alcohol treatment seeking, treatment settings and providers, perceived unmet need for treatment and barriers to such treatment. Our sample consisted of 5,003 individuals with AUD with a comorbid mood or anxiety disorder and 6,734 individuals with AUD but without mood or anxiety disorder comorbidity. RESULTS Overall, the group with mood or anxiety disorder comorbidity was more likely to seek alcohol treatment than the group without such comorbidity (18% vs. 12%, p<0.001). The comorbid group was also more likely to perceive an unmet need for such treatment (8% vs. 3%, p<0.001) and to report a larger number of barriers (2.81 vs. 2.20, p=0.031). Individuals with AUD with comorbid mood or anxiety disorders were more likely than those without to report financial barriers to alcohol treatment (19% vs. 10%, p=0.032). CONCLUSIONS Individuals with AUD and comorbid mood or anxiety disorders would likely benefit from the expansion of financial access to alcohol treatments and integration of services envisioned under the Affordable Care Act.

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Treatment seeking and barriers to treatment for alcohol use in persons with alcohol use disorders and comorbid mood or anxiety disorders

Kaufmann

Chen

Crum

et al. 2013

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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“…These earlier studies included examinations of the impacts of controls affecting alcohol availability (Colón, 1981;Colón et al, 1982;Harford et al, 1979;Rush et al, 1986;Watts and Rabow, 1983), price (Kuusi, 1957;Ornstein and Hanssens, 1985;Seeley, 1960;Simon, 1966a), drinking age laws (Saffer and Grossman, 1987), on-premise drinking (Smart and Docherty, 1976), taxes (Cook, 1981;Cook and Tauchen, 1982;Levy and Shefl in, 1985), privatization (Holder and Wagenaar, 1990;Room, 1987;Simon, 1966b;Wagenaar and Holder, 1991), Sunday sales (Smith, 1987), sales of liquor by the drink Holder, 1987a, 1987b), planning and zoning (Wittman and Hilton, 1987), and sales in supermarkets (Williams, 1975). A number of these articles advanced the fi eld in the areas of regulations on availability on consumptions and problems (Blose and Holder, 1987b;Colón et al, 1982;Harford et al, 1979;Rush et al, 1986;Smart and Docherty, 1976;Williams, 1975).…”

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A Review of Alcohol and Other Drug Control Policy Research

Treno¹,

Marzell²,

Gruenewald³

et al. 2014

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs Suppl.

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“…Initial studies on the role of alcohol outlets in the neighbourhood environment and assaultive violence were ecological in design and conducted at the city level (Watts and Rabow, 1983;Scribner et al, 1995). As geographical information systems (GIS) software became widely available, more local units of analysis (e.g., census tracts) were used when modeling the theoretical relation between alcohol outlets in a neighbourhood and assaultive violence (Speer et al, 1998;Scribner et al, 1999).…”

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Multilevel spatio-temporal dual changepoint models for relating alcohol outlet destruction and changes in neighbourhood rates of assaultive violence

Scribner

Carlin

et al. 2008

Geospat Health

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Abstract. Many previous studies have suggested a link between alcohol outlets and assaultive violence. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of the "1992 Civil Unrest" in Los Angeles (which followed the "Rodney King incident"), in which many alcohol outlets were damaged leading to a decrease in alcohol outlet density, on crime. We leverage the natural experiment created by the closure of alcohol outlets in certain areas and not others to explore the effects of alcohol availability on assault crimes at the census tract level. We develop a hierarchical model that controls for important covariates (such as race and socio-economic status) and accounts for unexplained spatial and temporal variability. While our model is somewhat complex, its hierarchical Bayesian analysis is accessible via the WinBUGS software. Our results show that, keeping other effects fixed, the reduction in alcohol availability within a census tract was associated with a drop in the assaultive violence rate at the census tract level. Comparing several dual candidate changepoint models using the Deviance Information Criterion, the drop in assaultive violence rate is best seen as having occurred one year after the reduction in alcohol availability, with the effect lasting roughly five years. We also create maps of the fitted assault rates in Los Angeles, as well as spatial residual maps that suggest various spatially-varying covariates are still missing from our model.

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Alcohol Availability and Alcohol‐Related Problems in 213 California Cities

Cited by 73 publications

References 13 publications

Treatment seeking and barriers to treatment for alcohol use in persons with alcohol use disorders and comorbid mood or anxiety disorders

Treatment seeking and barriers to treatment for alcohol use in persons with alcohol use disorders and comorbid mood or anxiety disorders

A Review of Alcohol and Other Drug Control Policy Research

Multilevel spatio-temporal dual changepoint models for relating alcohol outlet destruction and changes in neighbourhood rates of assaultive violence

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