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Rehab News:Alcohol treatment combined with community efforts reduce fatalities
Better access to substance and
alcohol abuse treatment can reduce the number of alcohol-related fatal crashes, a study has revealed.
The new study, funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism (NIAAA), showed that reducing access to alcohol in tandem with substance abuse treatment has a positive impact in reducing fatalities.
"This is the first study to explore the effect of the combined use of increased individually-oriented substance abuse treatment and environmental strategies to reduce alcohol availability," said NIAAA director Ting-Kai Li.
"These results show that concentrated, community-wide interventions can save lives."
The study looked at 12 communities throughout the United States which were awarded grants in 1992 to support the implementation of ten-year programmes aimed at reducing substance abuse and related problems.
The communities developed 15 different kinds of programmes or actions that targeted alcohol abuse, including increasing publicly-funded treatment, establishing awareness campaigns about treatment services, initiating hospital emergency department alcohol screening and referral, conducting responsible beverage training, and enacting ordinances to prohibit public drinking.
The researchers found that communities that undertook concentrated alcohol interventions experienced significant declines in alcohol-related fatal crashes during the ten years of the programme compared with the ten years before the programme.
For example, Kansas City, Milwaukee, San Antonio, Santa Barbara and Vallejo experienced a 22 per cent decline in alcohol-related crashes involving blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) of 0.01 per cent or higher, relative to same-state comparison communities.
"As research further defines the types of community interventions that successfully reduce alcohol-related problems communities can focus on intervention strategies likely to produce desired results," said lead researcher Ralph Hingson, professor at the Boston University School of Public Health and Center to Prevent Alcohol Problems Among Young People.
