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April 1996
San Francisco Alcohol Policy Coalition News
Alcohol poses a substantial risk to the health and safety of our community. Despite the nation's emphasis on illegal drugs, alcohol also poses substantial risks to the health and safety of our community. Like other drugs, alcohol does not just affect the user, it can negatively impact an entire family, school, neighborhood and community.
Nationally, the cost of alcohol problems in our society in terms of diseases, early death, car crashes and other accidents. Health care costs and lost productivity is estimated at over $120 billion annually.
Locally our neighborhoods "pay a price" in terms of:
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The Vallejo Alcohol Policy Coalition (VAPC), established in 1992, is a community-based group committed to reducing the toll alcohol-related problems take on the neighborhoods and community of Vallejo.
VAPC members and advisory staff.
Our mission is to "serve as a vehicle for the citizens of Vallejo to educate the community about the alcohol environment and impact policy to reduce the risk associated with the consumption of alcohol."
Research
has shown that if communities reduce the availability of alcohol, alcohol-related
problems decrease.
The VAPC does
not
advocate
prohibition. The VAPC recognizes that alcohol
has
an accepted place in
American society. The Coalition believes decisions about alcohol availability
should be designed to reduce the risk related to its consumption and that
the communities affected should have
a
say in these decisions.
The VAPC strives
to create an environment that will protect the community from alcohol-related
problems as well as protect the rights of people who want to drink, as
long as people consume alcohol responsibly and those who sell alcohol
sell it responsibly.
To accomplish
our mission
the Vallejo
Alcohol Policy
Coalition is involved with:
- Bringing together a broad cross-section of Vallejo's citizens representing
the cultural ethnic, economic and social diversity of the city and
builds coalitions with
other groups
- Providing a voice
for citizens to express their concerns-about the impact alcohol problems
have on their communities on local, state and federal levels
- Providing education,
through slide shows, videos and speakers, to community. members/groups
on how the alcohol industry seeks to increase consumption by specifically
targeting African American, Latino and other groups
- Advocating for
changing current public
policies
that foster high-risk.drinkimg practices
- Developing model
policies and promoting their adoption
- Seeking innovative ways to assist communities that want to modify their alcohol environment.