Community Trials Intervention to Reduce High-Risk Drinking (RHRD)
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Description

This is a set of environmental prevention and community mobilization interventions to reduce alcohol consumption (e.g., excessive consumption in short periods of time or before driving a vehicle, or risky consumption by adolescents who are not of legal drinking age).
Community mobilization interventions are aimed at raising the issue as a relevant problem for communities and engaging people and organizations in a common effort to prevent alcohol abuse; environmental prevention interventions include working with beverage outlets (ticket offices, bars) to control and prevent alcohol consumption by adolescents who are not yet of legal drinking age, restricting the areas of the city where alcohol can be sold and increasing control and supervision where alcoholic beverages are sold.

Impact evaluations

Impact evaluation studies have shown significant reductions in alcohol misuse behaviors, traffic accidents, alcohol-related injuries, and alcohol-related violence [1] [2] .

Bibliographic reference

[1] Holder, H. D., Gruenewald, P. J., Ponicki, W. R., Treno, A. J., Grube, J. W., Saltz, R. F., Voas, R. B., Reynolds, R., Davis, J., Sanchez, L., Gaumont, G. & Roeper, P. (2000). Effect of community-based interventions on high-risk drinking and alcohol-related injuries. JAMA, 284(18), 2341–2347. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.284.18.2341

[2] Treno, A. J., Gruenewald, P. J., Lee, J. P. & Remer, L. G. (2007). The Sacramento Neighborhood Alcohol Prevention Project: Outcomes from a community prevention trial. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 68(2), 197–207. https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.2007.68.197

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