Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing Research Alcohol,
licensed venues and violence: preliminary results from Dealing with
Alcohol and the Night Time Economy (DANTE) A/Prof Peter Miller 1
School of Psychology, Deakin University 2 National Addiction
Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK 3 NDRI,
Curtin University 4 Commissioning Editor, Addiction 5 Centre for
Addiction and Mental Health, Ontario, Canada Slide 2 Centre for
Mental Health and Wellbeing Research Acknowledgements
Co-investigators: Inspector Bill Mathers, A/Prof Darren Palmer
A/Prof John Wiggers, Anders Sonderlund, Florentine de Groot, Nic
Droste, Jennifer Tindall, Karen Gillham, Amy Richardson, Emma
McFarlane, Dr Ian Warren, Daniel Groombridge and Christophe
Lecianthes. Funders: Stage 1: Australian Drug Foundation, VicHealth
and TAC Stage 2: National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund ID
Scanner project: Criminological Research Council Thanks to: Lisa
Armstrong Rowe (City of Greater Geelong), Darren Holroyd, Ross
Arblaster (Barwon Health), Bronwen Allsop (Barwon Health), Mario
Gregorio, Dr Jane Mallick, Sen Con Bob Pupavac, Dr Tom Callaly
(Barwon Health), Inspector Barry Malloch, Superintendent Peter
O'Neill, Sergeant Shane Connelly, Inspector Carl Peers, Kirilee
Tilyard (NDLERF), Dr Linton Harris (Ambulance Victoria) and A/Prof
Tanya Chikritzhs and many more! Slide 3 Centre for Mental Health
and Wellbeing Research A reminder Four corners Monday, 26 Feb
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interventions None of these interventions had been evaluated in
Geelong or elsewhere InterventionDate Liquor Accord in various
forms1991 Safe City CCTV network2004 Dry zones2006 Safe Taxi
RankJan 2005 Nightlife 1 (increased policing, police working with
licensees)Jan 2007 Geelong night watch radio programApril 2007 ID
scannersDec 2007 Nightlife 2 (Linking of scanners, NWRP, CCTV more
activity)Jan 2009 Nightrider busNov 2009 Nightlife 3 (Renewed
activity change in focus to fines)early 2010 Increased Fines and
focus State governmentAug 2010 Safer streets taskforce / Operation
Razon Slide 5 Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing Research
Newcastle intervention Trading restrictions Reduced trading hours:
all premises are prohibited from trading later than 3.30am
Lock-out: patrons must be prohibited from entering after 1.30am
Alcoholic drink restrictions (after 10pm) No shots No mixed drinks
with more than 30mLs of alcohol No RTD (ready to drink) drinks with
an alcohol by volume greater than 5% alcohol Not more than 4 drinks
may be served to any patron at the one time Responsible service of
alcohol actions Free water stations on all bar service areas
Responsible Service of Alcohol Marshall from 11pm until closure
(staff member with the sole responsibility of supervising RSA
practices and consumption). No stockpiling drinks/more than 2
unconsumed drink Ceasing the sale and supply of alcohol at least 30
minutes prior to closing time. Slide 6 Centre for Mental Health and
Wellbeing Research Research Design Geelong and Newcastle 5 +yr
retrospective and 2yr prospective 4000 patron interviews 700
Community attitude surveys (CATI) Venue Observations (N=129)
(quarterly) 150 Key informant interviews 97initial 26 follow up
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Alcohol-related injury time of day & day of week Of weekend
cases, 42% (n = 965) occurred on Sundays with 55% of these cases (n
= 529) presenting between the hours of 12am and 6am, making this
time of the week the most high-risk in terms of alcohol-related
injury. Slide 8 Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing Research
Location Slide 9 Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing Research
Injury during high alcohol hours by year, Jul 99-Aug 09 Slide 10
Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing Research Alcohol-related
assault rates (per 10,000) by quarter and year (all hours) in
Geelong Slide 11 Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing Research
Alcohol-assaults - regression analysis R 2 =.20 (.185 adjusted) and
was significantly different from zero with F(4, 209) = 13.06, p
