Act 85 Legislative Report

PA ACTing on ALCOHOL ISSUES

ACT 85 BIENNIAL REPORT

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?

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

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

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

UNDERAGE DRINKING ENFORCEMENT CENTER

http://www.udetc.org/index.asp

NATIONAL DATA

10TH GRADE LIFETIME ALCOHOL USE

COMMUNITY-LEVEL DATA

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

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

HOW? 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?

ACTIVITY

STATE SUPPORTS ENFORCEMENT

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

Trainings: Owner/manager

Server/seller

Large venue Signage Hospitality resources

STATE-SUPPORTED PROGRAMS

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)

https://www.stopalcoholabuse.gov/statevideos/default.aspxhttps://www.sto://www.stopalcoholabuse.gov/://www.stopalcoholabuse.gov/statevideos/default.aspx

TALK TO THEM…

TRENDING - MEDIA

ALCOHOL AND THE TEEN BRAIN

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

FDA Clarifies Its Role on “Palcohol” Smoking

NON-LIQUID ALCOHOL

ALCOHOL WITH STIMULANTS

Stimulants combined with alcohol have caused: walking blackouts hyper-vigilance anxiety heart palpitations psychosis-like episodes extreme mood swings alcohol poisoning other dangerous

consequences 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

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