Social Host Ordinance

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Social Host Ordinance

• an ordinance to increase penalties for adults
  hosting drinking parties or buying alcohol for
  underage persons

www.icoe.k12.ca.us/ISC/
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Why are we recommending a Social Host Ordinance?

• Underage drinking is a bigger problem than we
  imagined
• Brain Research
• Community Norms
• There is a problem right here
• Juvenile Crime Statistics
• Healthy Kids Survey Data
• What we can do about it

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The Adolescent Brain is Still Developing

• During adolescence, the brain is being remodeled
  (undergoing dramatic transformations)
• In some brain regions, over 50 of neuronal
  connections are lost
• Some new connections are formed
• Net effect is pruning (a loss of neurons)

Ken Winters, Ph.D.
CSAPs Western CAPT Department of
Psychiatry
Audio Teleconference University of
Minnesota March 18,
2004 winte001_at_umn.edu
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Adolescent Brain Changes

• These brain changes help to explain adolescent
  behavior
• Prefrontal cortex (PFC) is pruned not fully
  developed until mid-20s
• Amygdala (and n.a.) show less pruning and tend to
  dominate the PFC

judgment
reward system
Ken Winters, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry
University of Minnesota winte001_at_umn.edu
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I hate school I am going to skip classes and get
drunk
I like to use drugs!!
PFC
amygdala
Prefrontal Cortex (PFC)
This imbalance leads to... ? planned thinking
? impulsiveness ? self-control ?
risk-takingmore hot talking, less cool
talking
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Alcohol and Drugs Hijack the Brains Reward
Circuitry

• Immediate effect of substance use is an increase
  in dopamine
• Continued use of substance reduces the brains
  dopamine production.
• Because dopamine is part of the reward system,
  the brain is fooled that the substance has
  survival value for the organism.
• The reward system responds with alcohol or drug
  seeking behaviors
• Craving occurs and, eventually, dependence.

Ken Winters, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry
University of Minnesota winte001_at_umn.edu
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Are adolescents more susceptible to alcohol than
adults?
Most certainly YES

• Reduced sensitivity to intoxication
• Increased sensitivity to social disinhibitions
• Greater adverse effects to cognitive functioning

Ken Winters, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry
University of Minnesota winte001_at_umn.edu
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• The Juvenile Crime Statistics
• and
• California Healthy Kids Survey Data
• or
• How big is our problem?

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Juvenile Arrest Rates for Imperial County Cities
for 2001 and 2003 with Population 10 to 17 years
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California Healthy Kids SurveyImperial County
Compared to Statewide AveragesPerception that
Daily Use is Harmful (2002-03 and 03-04)

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7th Grade Imperial County Healthy Kids Survey
Results for 2002-03 Compared to Average
Statewide Results
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California Healthy Kids Survey Data for 7th
Graders for 2002-03 and 2003-04
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9th Grade Imperial County Healthy Kids Survey
Results for 2002-03 Compared to Average
Statewide Results
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California Healthy Kids Survey Data for 9th
Graders for 2002-03 and 2003-04
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11th Grade Imperial County Healthy Kids Survey
Results for 2002-03 Compared to Average
Statewide Results
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California Healthy Kids Survey Data for 11th
Graders for 2002-03 and 2003-04
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We have a problem. How do we address it?

• Research has shown that
• Adolescent Problem Behaviors like
• Substance Abuse, Delinquency, and Violence
• exist when there are
• community laws and norms favorable to
• teenage drinking, drug use, firearms, and crime.

We need to change the community norm of
acceptance for underage drinking and pot smoking.
Supporting the Social Host Ordinance is one way
to begin to change community norms.
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What can we do about it ?

• The SOCIAL HOST ORDINANCE-
• an ordinance to increase penalties for adults
  hosting drinking parties or buying alcohol
• for underage persons

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SECTION 4. Definitions

• Person(s) responsible for the event" includes,
  but is not limited to
• The person(s) who owns, rents, leases, or
  otherwise has control of the premises where the
  party, gathering or event takes place
• (2) the person(s) in charge of the premises or
• (3) the person(s) who organized the event.
• If a person responsible for the event is a
  juvenile, then the parents or guardians of that
  juvenile will be jointly and severally liable for
  the costs incurred for enforcement services
  pursuant to this chapter.

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Section 5. Police services at large parties,
gatherings or events requiring a response.

• When a large party, gathering or event occurs on
  private property and a police officer at the
  scene determines that there is a threat to the
  public peace, health, safety or general welfare,
  the person(s) responsible for the event shall be
  liable for the cost of providing police services
  for the special security assignment to control
  the threat to the public peace, health, safety or
  general welfare, or for the actual cost of
  enforcement services provided during the response

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Ordinance Approval Strategy

• ISC assigned to Local Coordinating Committee
• ISC to Discuss w/ Local Law Enforcement Chiefs
• ISC to Discuss w/ Superintendents
• ISC to Discuss w/ Judges
• Develop Ad Hoc Committees to Present to each City
  and the County and to Market,
• Present to each City Manager and the CEO
• Present to the City Councils for Approval
• Present to High School Boards