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College Drinking: Changing the Culture
Created by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). CollegeDrinkingPrevention.gov is your one-stop resource for comprehensive research-based information on issues related to alcohol abuse and binge drinking among college students. |
The Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention
The Higher Education Center's purpose is to help college and community leaders develop, implement, and evaluate programs and policies to reduce student problems related to alcohol and other drug use and interpersonal violence. The Center favors a comprehensive approach to prevention. Central to this approach is a mix of environmental management strategies to address the institutional, community, and public policy factors that contribute to these problems. The Center supports the development of a prevention infrastructure, primarily by facilitating the work of statewide prevention initiatives and campus-community coalitions. The Center provides trainings, technical assistance, and publications to support these efforts. The Center also promotes innovative program development to improve student education, campus-based media campaigns (including social norms campaigns), early intervention, treatment, and recovery strategies, and enforcement. |
College Talk
The College Talk program helps parents talk to their college-bound student about drinking. This program was developed by an advisory panel of authorities in the fields of education, family therapy, student health and wellness, alcohol treatment and social norms marketing, and through conversations with parents and students. It is distributed free by Anheuser-Busch and its team of wholesalers. |
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Get Involved: Colorado
This page is a powerful tool for engaging individuals in local action. Use it as your voice to spread the word and get others involved in your efforts for change: email us your action alerts and news. |
Binge Drinking in Adolescents and College Students
Despite laws in every State that make it illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to purchase or possess alcohol, young people report that alcohol is easy to obtain and that many high school and college students drink with one goal – to get drunk.1 Binge drinking is defined as consuming five or more drinks in a row for boys and four or more in a row for girls.2 |
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Even as college students discover the intricacies of quantum physics and American history, many do not grasp an enormous health problem on our college campuses--alcohol abuse. As a former university chancellor, I know that the culture of drinking on many campuses puts these students at risk for many serious problems, ranging from car crashes to date rape. Heavy drinking over a long period of time can lead to health problems, such as cirrhosis and various types of cancer. |
College Recovery
This site is intended to be a portal for students in recovery from around the country and maybe from around the globe. Here you can find support, 12 step meetings that cater to young people, events, news and research in the addiction fields, life skill tips, and other information that will help strengthen your recovery and enhance your educational experience. |
Drugs, Brains, and Behavior - The Science of Addiction
How Science Has Revolutionized the Understanding of Drug Addiction
Throughout much of the last century, scientists studying drug abuse labored in the shadows of powerful myths and misconceptions about the nature of addiction. When science began to study addictive behavior in the 1930s, people addicted to drugs were thought to be morally flawed and lacking in willpower. Those views shaped society's responses to drug abuse, treating it as a moral failing rather than a health problem, which led to an emphasis on punitive rather than preventative and therapeutic actions. Today, thanks to science, our views and our responses to drug abuse have changed dramatically. Groundbreaking discoveries about the brain have revolutionized our understanding of drug addiction, enabling us to respond effectively to the problem.
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