1. Act 85 Legislative Report PA ACTing on ALCOHOL ISSUES

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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)

5. 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

6. 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

7. UNDERAGE DRINKING ENFORCEMENT CENTER http://www.udetc.org/index.asp NATIONAL DATA

8. 10TH GRADE LIFETIME ALCOHOL USE

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. STATE SUPPORTS ENFORCEMENT  High-visibility patrols  Undercover patrols  Cops in Shops  Educational programs  Technology  Hotline (1.888.Under21)

13. STATE SUPPORTS HIGHER ED Educational  Town-Gown strategic planning  RA Training  BLCE – Choices Interventions  BASICS  Bystander  Harm reduction http://www.controltonight.com/

14. STATE SUPPORTS LICENSEES  Trainings:  Owner/manager  Server/seller  Large venue  Signage  Hospitality resources

15. 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)

16. https://www.stopalcoholabuse.gov/statevideos/default.aspxhttps://www.st o://www.stopalcoholabuse.gov/:// www.stopalcoholabuse.gov/statevideos/default.aspx TALK TO THEM…

17. TRENDING - MEDIA

18. 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

19.  FDA Clarifies Its Role on “Palcohol”  Smoking NON-LIQUID ALCOHOL

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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.

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24. 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