Reference Number: DSW2201, Year of Publication: 2006
Authors: Gruenewald, Paul; Wood, Darryl
Keywords: Alcohol Regulation, Injury, Native Americans
Citation: Wood, D.S. and Gruenewald, P.J. “Local alcohol prohibition, police presence and serious injury in isolated Alaska Native villages,” Addiction, 101(3):393-403, March 2006.
Aims: To consider the effects of alcohol prohibition and police presence upon serious injury in isolated Alaska Native villages.
Design: We compared rates of injury attributed to assault, self-harm, motor vehicle collisions and ‘other causes’ between villages with or without local prohibition and between villages with or without local police. Negative binomial regression was used to assess the relative effects of prohibition and police presence upon serious injury rates net of potential confounders.
Participants: A total of 132 isolated Alaska Native villages between the years 1991 through 2000.
Measurements: Serious injury was measured using Alaska Trauma Registry and Alaska Bureau of Vital Statistics death certificate records. Local option election records were used to classify cases as occurring in wet or dry villages and police deployment records were used to classify cases as occurring in villages with or without local police. Village-level statistics from the 1990 and 2000 U.S. censuses were used in the negative binomial regression analyses.
Findings: Villages that prohibited alcohol had lower age-adjusted rates of serious injury resulting from assault, motor vehicle collisions, and ‘other causes.’ Dry villages with a local police presence had a lower age-adjusted rate of serious injury caused by assault. Controlling for the relative effects of village isolation, access to alcohol markets and local demographic structures, local prohibition was associated with lower rates of assault injuries and ‘other causes’ injuries while local police presence was associated with lower rates of assault injuries.
Conclusions: Residents of isolated Alaska Native villages are safer when they prohibit alcohol. A local police presence in dry villages provides further reduction of the incidence of assault.”
http://www.prev.org/printindivrec.asp?refno=907
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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01347.x
Submitted 23 April 2004; initial review completed 9 July 2004; final version accepted 21 September 2005
Affiliations
1Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK 2and Prevention Research Center, Berkeley, CA, USA
Correspondence
Darryl S. Wood, Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508, USA. E-mail: wood AT uaaDOTalaskaDOTedu
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Wood, Darryl S. & Gruenewald, Paul J. (2006)
Local alcohol prohibition, police presence and serious injury in isolated Alaska Native villages.
Addiction 101 (3), 393-403.
doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01347.x
Keywords: Alaska Natives, alcohol, assault, frontier, injury, prohibition, suicide
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I have been assembling references about alcohol control points and whether increasing prohibition (which the City Council of Bethel wishes to do) has any effect on the rate (prevalence) or incidence of crime, chronic alcoholism, or addiction. The references have been assembled in http://www.connotea.org/user/Hlthenvt
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This issue needs careful examination which the Council hasn’t yet done, before changing community policy. Public involvement procedures should provide at least three proposed alternatives–
no action
action 1
action 2
with the pros and cons (positive and negative impacts) of each alternative. (Or, multiple working hypotheses with procedures to falsify them.)
This is a succinct description of those who don’t use science and logic, from a review of the Da Vinci Code movie and phenomenon—
[empahsis added]
Media should stop and say, `It’s only a movie’
[HOME EDITION]
Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles, Calif.
Author: TIM RUTTEN
Date: May 20, 2006
Start Page: E.1
Section: Calendar; Part E; Calendar Desk
Document Types: Commentary
http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/cl-et-rutten20may20,0,6798822.story?track=tottext
you are stupid. Everything is crossed out! you give us no information.
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no info–
How kind of you to point out the coding problems. While the links and information would work anyway with the strikethrough marks, I have edited the code to remove them.
Pam