Research
Here you will find additional resources and statistics about excessive drinking and other high-risk factors for college environments.
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College Drinking as a Public Health Issue
- Alcohol abuse and dependence among U.S. college students
- Epidemiology of alcohol and other drug use among American college students
- Focus on: College drinking and related problems: Magnitude and prevention of college drinking and related problems
- Magnitude of alcohol-related mortality and morbidity among U.S. college students ages 18-24
- Magnitude of and trends in alcohol-related mortality and morbidity among U.S. college students ages 18-24, 1998-2005
- NIAAA Publication: College Drinking Fact Sheet
- Preventing Binge Drinking on College Campuses: A Guide to Best Practices
- RIA Reaching Others: College Student Drinking
- What colleges need to know now: An update on college drinking research
Consequences of Risky Drinking
- Alcohol effects on behavioral control: The impact of likelihood and magnitude of negative consequences
- Beyond hangovers: Understanding alcohol’s impact on your health
- Decision making and binge drinking: A longitudinal study
- Environmental correlates of underage alcohol use and related problems of college students
- Surveying the damage: A review of research on consequences of alcohol misuse in college populations
- Using alcohol to relieve your pain: What are the risks?
Maryland-Specific Statistics and Resources
Prevention Strategies
- Assessing Campus Alcohol Policies: Measuring Accessibility, Clarity, and Effectiveness
- Drinking in America: Myths, realities, and prevention policies
- Identifying two potential mechanisms for changes in alcohol use among college-attending and non-attending emerging adults
- Magnitude of the problem of drinking alcohol on college campuses, commentary on “structuring a college alcohol prevention program on the low level of response to alcohol model: A pilot model”
- CollegeAIM NIAAA’s Alcohol Intervention Matrix
- Predictors of alcohol use during the first year of college: Implications for prevention
- Underage alcohol use: summary of developmental processes and mechanisms: Ages 16-21
- Underage college students’ drinking behavior, access to alcohol, and the influence of deterrence policies
Other Drug Use
Risk Factors
- A multidomain approach to understanding risk for underage drinking: Converging evidence from 5 data sets
- Age of first intoxication, heavy drinking, driving after drinking and risk of unintentional injury among U.S. college students
- Are social norms the best predictor of outcomes among heavy-drinking college students?
- Comparing Greek-Affiliated Students and Student Athletes: An Examination of the Behavior-Intention Link, Reasons for Drinking, and Alcohol-Related Consequences
- Correlates of college student binge drinking
- Heavy drinking across the transition to college: Predicting first-semester heavy drinking from precollege variables
- Personality and risk-taking: Common biosocial factors
- Predictors of heavy drinking during and following treatment
- Risk for excessive alcohol use and drinking-related problems in college student athletes
- Social influences on the clustering of underage risky drinking and its consequences in communities
- Student factors: Understanding individual variation in college drinking
- The role of personality dispositions to risky behavior in predicting first year college drinking
- They drink how much and where? Normative perceptions by drinking contexts and their association to college students’ alcohol consumption