Underage Drinking: A Town Hall Meeting moderated by Charley Johnson

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Underage DrinkingA Town Hall Meetingmoderated
by Charley Johnson

• March 28, 2006
• Moorhead City Council Chambers
• Moorhead, Minnesota

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Why Are We Concerned

• Drinking behavior has changed
• What the data say about our culture
• State and Metropolitan rankings for alcohol
  misuse
• Grades 9-12 Minnesota Student Survey
• Grades 7-12 YRBS for North Dakota
• MSUM (CORE survey)
• Concordia (Internal survey)
• MSCTC (Internal survey)
• Fargo-Moorhead Adults

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Figure 3.6 Binge Alcohol Use in Past Month among
Youths Aged 12 to 17, by State Percentages,
Annual Averages Based on 2002 and 2003 NSDUHs
Source SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies,
National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002 and
2003.
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Figure 3.7 Binge Alcohol Use in Past Month among
Persons Aged 18 to 25, by State Percentages,
Annual Averages Based on 2002 and 2003 NSDUHs
Source SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies,
National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002 and
2003.
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Figure 3.8 Binge Alcohol Use in Past Month among
Persons Aged 26 or Older, by State Percentages,
Annual Averages Based on 2002 and 2003 NSDUHs
Source SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies,
National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002 and
2003.
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FIGURE 1Geographic distribution of
binge-drinking prevalence estimates for US
metropolitan areas 1997 and 1999.
Source April 2004, Vol 94, No. 4 American
Journal of Public Health
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FIGURE 2State binge-drinking estimates and the
20 US metropolitan areas with the highest
binge-drinking levels 1997 and 1999.
Source April 2004, Vol 94, No. 4 American
Journal of Public Health
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Source April 2004, Vol 94, No. 4 American
Journal of Public Health
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Minnesota Student Survey

• 2004 Minnesota Student Survey
• MSS Table 31 Item 4 (Alcohol)
• Binged in last two weeks

Source Gina Nolte, Clay County Public Health
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Youth Risk Behavior Survey

• 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey
• Binge Drank in last 30 Days

Source Ron Schneider, M.Ed., LAC and
http//www.dpi.state.nd.us/health/index.shtm
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Higher Education

• Students who binge drink (had five or more at a
  sitting in the previous two weeks)
• Minnesota State University Moorhead
• 59 (2003)
• Concordia College
• 39.1 (2005)
• Minnesota State Community and Technical
  College-Moorhead
• 66 (2006)
• National Average
• 43-46

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Consequences

• Emergency Room visits
• Detox/Treatment
• Legal
• Minor in Possession
• DUI
• Motor Vehicle Crashes
• Suicide
• Physical Assault
• Sexual Assault
• High-Risk Sex
• Alcohols Effect on a Growing Brain
• Vandalism
• Academic Performance Threatened
• Doing things one later regrets

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Work in Progress

• Network of Coalitions
• MHD/Clay County Committee
• Safe Communities
• Higher Education Task Forces
• Clay County Collaborative Substance Abuse
  Committee
• Community Prevention Coalition (Yet to begin
  Please join!)

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What Can Be Done?

• Information Dissemination
• Education
• Alternative Activities
• Problem Identification and Referral
• Community Based Processes
• Environmental Management

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What Do You Think?
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Presenters

• Susanne Williams Minnesota State University
  Moorhead
• Deric Swenson Youth Education Officer Moorhead
  Police Department
• Scott Matheson Moorhead Public Schools
• Gina Nolte Clay County Public Health
• Students from Moorhead Senior High and Minnesota
  State University Moorhead