Goals

• Help communities reduce various types of alcohol-related incidents, violence, and resulting injuries.

Strategies

For the Reducing High-Risk Drinking program to be successful, the implementing organization must first determine which program components will best produce the desired results for its community. The RHRD program uses five prevention components; Alcohol Access, Responsible Beverage Service, Risk of Drinking and Driving, Underage Alcohol Access, and Community Mobilization. 

For a more detailed description including implementation essentials, risk factors and program background you may visit the SAMHSA Model Programs website at: http://modelprograms.samhsa.gov/template_cf.cfm?page=model&pkProgramID=23.

Results

• 51% decline in self-reported driving when "over the legal limit" in the intervention communities relative to the comparison communities
• 6% decline in self-reported amounts consumed per drinking occasion
• 49% decline in self-reported "having had too much to drink"
• 10% reduction in nighttime injury crashes
• 6% reduction in crashes in which the driver had been drinking