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Alcohol Outlets and
Problems in Baltimore:
Is there Environmental
Support for High-Risk
Drinking
Debra Furr-Holden, PhD and Mieka Smart, MHS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Parent Grant Funded by the National Institute on Alcoholism and
Alcohol Abuse (PI, D Furr-Holden; 1-R01-AA015196)
Additional funding provided by Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention Youth Violence Prevention Center (PI, P Leaf;
1U49CE000728)
Baltimore City data provided by
The Baltimore City Mayor’s Office of Information Technology
And The Board of Liquor License Commissioners for Baltimore City
An extraordinary field data collection team!
C. Debra Furr-Holden, PhD
Assistant Professor and Director
Drug Investigations, Violence &
Environmental (DIVE) Studies Laboratory
JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health
Department of Mental Health
111 Market Place
Baltimore, MD 21202
Suite 850
dholden@jhsph.edu
www.divestudies.com
Baltimore City
has 277
ecologically
defined
neighborhoods;
242 are
residential
There are
1,277
licensed
alcohol
outlets in
Baltimore
City
The
Homewood
Campus is
just north of
Central
Baltimore
City
Put into Perspective…..
There are 97 alcohol outlets within the 1-mile buffer around
the Homewood Campus
There are 41 alcohol outlets within the 1-mile buffer around
the worse block in East Baltimore
There are 33 alcohol outlets within the 1-mile buffer around
the worse block in West Baltimore
There are 25 alcohol outlets within the 1-mile buffer around
Martin O’Malley’s former residence
Information on the 97 Licensed Alcohol Outlets
around the Homewood Campus
Among these 97 licensed alcohol outlets:
• One-third (30) sell packaged goods exclusively
• The other two-thirds (67) sell alcohol on premises
• Two-thirds (64) sell alcohol 7 days per week
– Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s 95 of the 97 outlets
sell alcohol 7 days a week
Calls for Service for ‘Intoxicated Person’ by Month
in 2008 within 1-mile of the Homewood Campus
Potential Environmental Strategies
 Decrease the number of alcohol outlets in the
surrounding area
Quote from Scribner et al (2009) Given the limited number
of modifiable factors that affect college drinking, onpremise outlet density represents a potential modifiable
means of addressing the problem.
Article 2b of the Maryland State Law has provisions for the
distance alcohol outlets can be from a church or a
school, perhaps similar legislation is needed to protect
college students.
 Enforcement