22-25 June 2008
Buena Vista Palace
Orlando, FL
www.niatx.net
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Our three-year study, Local Efforts to Restrict Malt Liquor Sales (LERMLS) has three primary objectives:Our study builds on findings from our Malt Liquor and Homicide (MLH) study, which investigated the role of alcohol and malt liquor availability and promotion in explaining disparities in homicide rates in inner-city neighborhoods in 10 U.S. cities including Santa Ana, Oakland, San Francisco, Kansas City (KS), Kansas City (MO), St. Paul, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Boston, and Baltimore. The MLH study was funded by the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse.
- Determine whether the sale and consumption of malt liquor is perceived as a problem by city officials and document what has been done at the local level to restrict it....This aim will be accomplished by conducting a telephone survey of city officials and staff responsible for alcohol policy-making and enforcement in the 100 largest U.S. cities.
- Compare six cities’ efforts to adopt policies to restrict malt liquor sales and determine what factors were critical to their success or failure. This aim will be achieved by conducting a retrospective, comparative case study of three cities that successfully adopted policies that restrict malt liquor sales and three cities that were unsuccessful.
- Create a national database that provides summaries of key features of local policies that have been successfully adopted to restrict malt liquor sales on our Alcohol Epidemiology website (http://www.epi.umn.edu/alcohol), which is accessible to local policy makers, law enforcement officials, community groups, and researchers. The database will also include a summary of the literature on malt liquor consumption and policies to restrict its use, model ordinances that cities may wish to adapt to their communities, a summary of factors that may facilitate or impede adoption of these policies, and examples of measures that can be used to evaluate these policies.
Rats addicted to amphetamines temporarily 'forget' their drug cravings after receiving targeted brain injections of lidocaine, a medication commonly used by dentists to numb patients' gums.
Researchers say that the medication worked by inactivating an area of the brain known as the insular cortex or insula, which has previously been implicated in controlling drug addiction. They hope that altering activity in the insula might one day work to treat drug addiction in people.
The GOCCC, with support from T-ACT and in collaboration with DMHDD and DCS, is undertaking a review of the administration and funding of Adolescent Substance Abuse services. The project is referred to as the Substance Abuse Collaborative.
The principal goals are to form recommendations to align financial resources and administrative practices that will result in quality services to more Tennessee youth, and to achieve greater integration of community based treatment and prevention services and expansion of resources within and across sectors.
Work of the Collaborative is just beginning. We would very much appreciate your input as Board members at this early stage. Will you please complete a brief survey by close of business Friday, October 5, by clicking on this link.
Responses to the survey are collected at the site anonymously. All PAB members are asked to respond, whether or not you will be able to attend the meeting. Your collective input is important to this project. Results of the survey will be reported at the PAB meeting next week.
Thank you in advance for your participation.
Mary Rolando
