Heavy Drinking Associated With Local Bars But Not Liquor Stores

Bars and nightclubs, but not liquor stores, are linked with excessive alcohol consumption and heavy episodic drinking in adults who live nearby, according to a new study from the Pardee RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, California.”Usually people think that liquor stores define a neighborhood’s alcohol consumption, but we didn’t find any relationship between them and problem drinking among the adult population in California,” says author Khoa Truong, PhD. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs on November 18th, 2007