Queensland's lockout law reduced ambulance callouts in some key trouble spots

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In July 2016, the Queensland Government introduced the Tackling Alcohol-Fuelled Violence (TAFV) policy to address alcohol-related harm in entertainment precincts, and a study of the results suggests ambulance callouts in some key trouble spots declined notably. However, overall, the policy had a "limited effect" on callouts, the authors say. The average number of monthly call-outs in high-risk areas reduced by 26.2 per cent in Fortitude Valley and by 21.1 per cent in Surfers Paradise, but when all the included suburbs were considered, monthly call-outs reduced by just 4.3 per cent, they say.

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conference: Drug & Alcohol Review

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Organisation/s: Deakin University, The University of Queensland, La Trobe University, Monash University

Funder: The QUANTEM project was funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage grant (LP160100067), the Queensland Government, Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education, Australian Rechabites Foundation and Lives Lived Well. This study was additionally funded by an Australian Institute of Criminology research grant (47 16-17), of which authors PGM and DS are chief investigators; and by the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services that provides funding for ambulance data coding.

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