Campus Resources

This survey of young adults estimated how often alcohol is obtained through home delivery, to-go purchases, and theft, finding delivery purchases rare but often unchecked for ID and linked to high-risk drinking.

This guide and website help campus officials choose alcohol interventions for their communities, rating options on effectiveness and cost, with ratings updated periodically from peer-reviewed research.

This study compared marijuana use trends among college students in states that did and did not legalize recreational use, finding larger increases in both prevalence and frequent use in legalizing states.

This mixed-methods study assessed student attitudes toward campus tobacco policies, finding majority support for tobacco-free policies but also a preference for designated smoking areas, with smokers and vapers least supportive.

This review assesses how cannabis legalization affects college students’ developing brains and mental health, noting the sharpest post-legalization increase in use has been among 18- to 25-year-olds.

This longitudinal study described annual trends in opportunity to use, use, and use given opportunity for eight drugs and three prescription medications during and after college.

This study tested whether substance use during college predicts plans to attend graduate school and subsequent enrollment, finding alcohol dependence associated with reduced likelihood of having definite plans.

This study compared substance use prevalence and trends between college students and their non-enrolled peers, to identify which substances carry particular risk in the college environment.

This study described college students’ beliefs about cannabis and found that holding beliefs unsupported by evidence, such as cannabis reducing stress, was associated with greater likelihood of use.

This feasibility study implemented MOSAIC, a computerized risk assessment tool, at seven universities, helping academic assistance professionals identify academic barriers and match students with resources.