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Recent research from the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation and the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health suggests that neighborhood crime may be reduced by enhancing “place management” resources in and around off-premise alcohol sales outlets, particularly at small and independent stores. Place management is monitoring and controlling […]

A new study by a research team including scientists from the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation provides a systematic review of research that examines relationships between exposure to alcohol marketing and alcohol use behaviors among adolescents and young adults. The researchers identified 38 cross-sectional studies that examined the relationship […]

Is daily exposure to tobacco outlets related to youth cigarette smoking and the number of cigarettes smoked that day? A new study led by researchers at the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation explores these questions using real time data from 100 youth participants from 16-20 years old to assess […]

Do state policies intended to reduce and eliminate alcohol use among pregnant women work? And, do the effects vary by pregnant women’s educational status?  Research by a team with scientists from the Prevention Research Center at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation finds that the answer to the first question is that, overall, such […]

New research from the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation suggests that legalization and greater retail availability of recreational marijuana is positively associated with marijuana use among adolescents. The researchers investigated whether legalization of recreational marijuana sales in 2015 and retail availability of marijuana in Oregon counties were associated with […]

A new study by collaborators at Klein Buendel, Inc. and the Prevention Research Center finds that recreational cannabis stores in Colorado and Washington state, both of which legalized adult recreational use in 2012, show high levels of compliance with rules preventing underage purchase of cannabis. The study also shows that there is more than can […]

“State Policies Targeting Alcohol Use during Pregnancy and Alcohol Use among Pregnant Women 1985–2016: Evidence from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System” won the Charles E. Gibbs Leadership Prize for the best paper published in Women’s Health Issues in 2019. Authored by Sarah CM Roberts, Amy A. Mericle, Meenakshi S. Subbaraman, Sue Thomas, Ryan D. […]

A new study from the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation offers a more in-depth understanding of smoking among patients in an urban emergency department. Studying patients in urban emergency departments matters because these patients smoke cigarettes and use other substances at higher rates than the general population. The data […]

Every time someone drinks an alcoholic beverage, she or he will drink that beverage at some place and some time.  Not surprisingly, this means that the physical and social environments in which that drinking takes place will be affected by: The physical characteristics of places that may encourage drinking, such as the ready availability of […]