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Media Releases

A Community-Level Intervention Reduces Alcohol-Related Motor Vehicle Crashes

December 19, 2020

New research from the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation shows that a community-level alcohol intervention in California resulted in a 17% reduction in alcohol-involved crashes among drivers aged 15–30.    The research study assessed an intervention aimed at reducing excessive drinking and harm among teens and young adults, including […]

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Changes in Drinking Contexts: Adolescents’ Nightly Alcohol Use

December 11, 2020

New research from the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation and the Illinois State University examines changes in adolescent drinking over the course of the evening and finds that: Drinking earlier in the evening is positively associated with continued drinking over the night course. Adolescents’ drinking contexts change through the […]

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Adverse Childhood Experiences are Associated with At-risk Drinking, Cannabis, and Illicit Drug Use among Women Urban Emergency Department Patients

November 22, 2020

New research from the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation suggests that adverse childhood experiences, often referred to as child maltreatment, are associated with increased odds of substance use among women urban Emergency Department (ED) patients. To study the question, the research scientists used a cross-sectional survey with 1,037 married […]

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Reducing Underage Drinking in California Indian Reservations: Community Awareness

September 21, 2020

Researchers from the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, the Southern California Tribal Health Clinic, and the Scripps Research Institute joined to evaluate underage drinking prevention efforts for American Indian youths on rural California reservations. The evaluation found that high proportions of the Tribal communities took action to reduce underage […]

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Proximity to the Southern Border and DUI Arrests in California

September 13, 2020

A new study from the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation of DUI arrests in California shows that arrests increase as distance to the southern border decrease, and that this may be due to greater availability of alcohol in the border area.           The article examines trends and population-level correlates […]

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Recreational Cannabis Retail Sales, Alcohol-Intoxicated Customers, & Online Responsible Vendor Training

August 9, 2020

The growing availability of legal recreational cannabis has resulted in a greater prevalence of impaired driving which is especially risky when marijuana is consumed with alcohol. Some jurisdictions that have legalized the sale of recreational cannabis also have laws that prohibit sales of cannabis to alcohol-intoxicated customers.  A new study tests whether training in responsible […]

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Context Matters: Neighborhood Factors Associated with Heavier Drinking

July 21, 2020

People in wealthier neighborhoods drink alcohol twice as frequently as people in poorer areas, suggests a new study from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. Studying neighborhoods in the East Bay of California, researchers compared 72 clusters of 200 […]

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Reducing Neighborhood Crime: Place Management of Alcohol Outlets

May 25, 2020

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 […]

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Alcohol Marketing & Underage Drinking

March 6, 2020

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 […]

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Youth Exposure to Tobacco Outlets and Cigarette Smoking: Does Exposure in Activity Space Matter?

February 29, 2020

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 […]

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