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1000 1500 people on our states waiting lists for treatment on any given
day.
Only 4.5% of Juveniles
who need treatment find it available.
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Approximately
one in four children, is exposed to family alcoholism or addiction, or
alcohol abuse, some time before the age of 18. (ACOA)
Louisiana Facts:
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History of
Alcohol Youth Poisoning deaths
Alcohol is the leading cause of death for
Louisiana Youth
Alcohol is involved in roughly 50% of all
homicides, suicides, and fatal traffic crashes
More undergraduates will die from
alcohol-related causes than will receive advanced degrees
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Nearly three-quarters of drivers
convicted of driving while impaired are either problem drinkers or
alcoholics.
Binge drinkers (those who consumed five
or more drinks at a single sitting during the past month) are 30 times
more likely to drive while impaired than those who do not binge.
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We need your support
to reduce the existing
risks, and problems with alcohol in Baton Rouge.
Baton Rouge City Council to vote on allowing alcohol to be
consumed outside in "cafes"
Wednesday 2/11/04 -
Plan to Attend
4pm, attend to speak on this issue.
Write, call, or fax, you City Councilman, and speak your
feelings on this issue.
How to I reach my
Metro Council Member? There are several ways to find out who
your council member is. You can use the
Council District map
or search by your street name using the
Council District Lookup.
If you still need help in determining who your Metro Council
member is, call the CAN DO Office at 389-3448 or the Council
Administrator's office at 389-3123.
Where do I go?
The Council
meets in the Governmental Building downtown at 222 St. Louis
Street.
The chambers are located on the third floor.
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History
Wednesday
1/28/04 Baton
Rouge City Council Meeting 4p.m.
Samantha-Hope Atkins, spoke on need in Baton Rouge to the council.
Rev. French speaks out on the need for alcohol free growth, and the
many Church's in Judson Baptist Association unite behind this effort.
Thank you to those who have been writing in, and the countless phone
calls of support!
City Council moves this item for two weeks. Wednesday
2/11/04 Hearing on allowing a more lax alcohol policy to provide
alcohol sales and consumption on the public sidewalks downtown.
Why we care about removing regulations on Alcohol and laws
becoming more lax?
The negative impact on our culture, reducing the restrictions on
alcohol, indicates support for a more lax culture, and known risks
for alcohol harms in our community.
Sending a message that the existing problems are not important,
and not relevant, simply to make way for more
alcohol problems with less alcohol regulation in our
community is not a positive message or idea.
Addressing the existing
problems stated above should be a proactive priority if we desire a
healthier, safer, community.
Many have written asking
"Why is there a need for alcohol to promote Baton Rouge?" "Can’t
Baton Rouge
find success without increasing the risks to problems already present in
our community without developing further risks?"
We certainly believe Baton Rouge can grow with or without alcohol
regulation and policy being reduced, we simply believe Baton Rouge
will grow with healthier, safer, population, and in a more
positive direction when we choose to focus on issues of concern
prior to opening the door to more.
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HopeNetworks Facts for Baton Rouge Alcohol Related
Problems:
Why we must address current alcohol
problems in Baton Rouge, prior to increasing
additional risks to our community, by decreasing the alcohol control
policy in Baton Rouge. Increasing the perception that our culture
supports additional alcohol consumption, or a more lax environment for
alcohol consumption, is not reasonable with our existing problems,
any effort to relax alcohol consumption strongly opposed without the
current facts and issues first being addressed.
Baton Rouge 2004-Alcohol
Facts/Community Concerns
Research on Alcohol Risks/Control Policies provided by CCCC
Current Concerns about LSU/SU-Marketing
and promotions already in action.
At present their are four
DDD licensed outlets have been advertising to LSU students in The
Tiger Weekly and The Reveille, in contradiction to their claims that
they are only targeting "young professionals," not students. Those
outlets
include:
Avoyelles On the River
Past Time
Red Star
Thirsty Tiger
Proven
Solutions as Suggestions:
Solution: Increase Funding for Capital Area Human Service District,
and Local Law Enforcement focused on underage drinking- prevention and
to adequately meet need with services in our parish to treat alcohol
abuse and addiction.
Funding Possibility and Suggestion:
Local Alcohol user fee of .25 per drink on all alcohol sold in EBR
retail outlets, to go to Capital Area Human Service District for Alcohol
Abuse and Addiction and Prevention programs for youth; Increase funds
for local Law Enforcement.
Good
research shows that increasing the price of alcohol, reduces underage
drinking, and provides often-needed revenues to address community
problems directly related to alcohol consumption. See the 2003
Landmark Federal Report on our National Crisis with Underage
DrinkingRead the NAS report
Implement Mandatory 21 for all bars and lounges in
East Baton Rouge, requiring all persons entering the
establishment to be the legal drinking age, unless accompanied by a
parent or legal guardian.
Clearly if those under 21 are no longer permitted to enter bars
and lounges, the existing problems enforcing the drinking age law which
requires persons be 21 years of age, to purchase alcohol, will decrease.
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