Research
Here you will find additional resources and statistics about excessive drinking and other high-risk factors for college environments.
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ALCOHOL
College Drinking as a Public Health Issue
- ADHD, Depression, and Substance Abuse Risk Among Beginning College Students
- Consequences of alcohol and marijuana use among college students: Prevalence rates and attributions to substance-specific versus simultaneous use
- Collateral Damage from College Drinking: A Conceptual Framework for Alcohol’s Harms to Others Among US College Students
- Fall Semester— A Time for Parents to Discuss the Risks of College Drinking
- Gender and Sexual Identity and Harms from Others’ Drinking Among US College Students: Results From A Multi-Campus Survey
- Gender Differences in the Epidemiology of Alcohol Use and Related Harms in the United States
- Negative Alcohol-Related Consequences Experienced by Young Adults in the Past 12 Months: Differences by College Attendance, Living Situation, Binge Drinking, and Sex
- NIAAA Publication: College Drinking Fact Sheet
- Prevalence of heavy episodic drinking and alcohol use disorder diagnosis among US college students: Results from the national Healthy Minds Study
- Preventing Binge Drinking on College Campuses: A Guide to Best Practices
- RIA Reaching Others: College Student Drinking
- Simultaneous Alcohol and Marijuana Use Among Adults: A Scoping Review of Prevalence, Patterns, Psychosocial Correlates, and Consequences
- The Epidemiology of Binge Drinking Among College-Age Individuals in the United States
Underage Drinking as a Public Health Issue
- Alcohol and public health: CDC fact sheet – underage drinking
- Excessive Drinking: CDC Fact Sheet
- Excessive Drinking: CDC Fact Sheet on Maryland
- Maryland State Report: Underage Drinking Prevention and Enforcement
- Understanding Binge Drinking: NIAAA Fact Sheet
- NIAAA Publication: Underage Drinking Fact Sheet
- Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking
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?
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
Prevention Strategies
- Assessing Campus Alcohol Policies: Measuring Accessibility, Clarity, and Effectiveness
- Collateral Damage from College Drinking: A Conceptual Framework for Alcohol’s Harms to Others Among US College Students
- Drinking in America: Myths, realities, and prevention policies
- Here to Stay? Policy Changes in Alcohol Home Delivery and “To-Go” Sales During and After COVID-19 in the United States
- Identifying two potential mechanisms for changes in alcohol use among college-attending and non-attending emerging adults
- Impact of Alcohol Home Delivery and Other Methods of Obtaining Alcohol in Young Adults
- Improving Campus Alcohol Policies Through Assessment and Scoring
- 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
CANNABIS
College Cannabis Use as a Public Health Issue
- Cannabis Fact Sheet
- Cannabis Legalization and College Mental Health
- Changes in Cannabis Consumption Among College Students During Covid-19
- Marijuana Use Trends Among College Students in States With and Without Legalization of Recreational Use: Initial and Longer-term Changes from 2008 to 2018
Consequences of Cannabis Use
- The Academic Consequences of Marijuana Use during College
- Cannabis Use and Academic Performance in College Students: The Role of Procrastination
- Marijuana Use and High-risk Health Behaviors among Diverse College Students Post-legalization of Recreational Marijuana Use
Risk Factors
- Risk Factors for Quantity of Cannabis Use Per Day among College Students Who Violated Their University Drug Use Policy
- Prevalence of Marijuana Use at College Entry and Risk Factors for Initiation During Freshman Year
Prevention Strategies
OTHER ISSUES
Gambling
- Maryland Center of Excellence on Problem Gambling
- Risk Factors for Gambling and Substance Use among Recent College Students
- Systematic Review of Preventive Programs for Reducing Problem Gambling Behaviors Among Young Adults
- Predictors of Sports Gambling among College Students: The Role of the Theory of Planned Behavior and Problem Gambling Severity
Tobacco
- Campus tobacco control policies and cessation interventions in college students: a commentary calling for research and action to address tobacco-related health disparities
- Student Attitudes Toward Tobacco Use and Tobacco Policies on College Campuses
- Emerging adult’s experiences with e-cigarette cessation
- Developing a targeted e-cigarette health communication campaign for college students
- Long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on use behavior and risk perceptions of college student E-cigarette users
- Smoking-Cessation Interventions for U.S. Young Adults: Updated Systematic Review