College Students
Most College Students Drink in Moderation and Many Abstain from Alcoholic Beverages
Most college and university students drink alcohol in moderation and many abstain from alcoholic beverages. Heavy episodic, abusive and binge drinking is less common than generally believed.
21st Birthday Card Harm-Reduction Program Effective
A harm-reduction 21st birthday card program is easily implemented, inexpensive, and can be effective in significantly reducing the harm frequently associated with 21st birthday celebrations by college and university students.
Enhancing the Effectiveness of the Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS)
Combining parental handbook intervention with the Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS)enhances the effectiveness of the BASICS program in reducing alcohol abuse.
Factors Increasing Risk of Alcohol-Related Traffic Crashes among Young Drivers
Speeding, driving with passengers, and driving at night (especially on weekends) increase the risk of traffic crashes among young people who drive after drinking alcoholic beverages (beer, wine or distilled spirits).
Emphasizing the Calories in Alcoholic Beverages May be Counter-Productive
Instead of engaging in the harm-reducing practice of eating while drinking, many college students reduce food intake on days they drink because of a fear of the calories in alcoholic beverages. Those who do so are at higher risk of blackouts, injuries, forced sex, unprotected sex, and physical fights.
“Stupid Drink” is a Smart Campaign
“Stupid Drink” is a university student-developed advertising campaign promoting harm reduction among college students who choose to drink alcohol by teaching responsible consumption of alcoholic beverages (beer, wine and distilled spirits).
College Men to Women: Don’t Drink Too Much - It Isn’t Attractive
College and university women tend to overestimate the extent to which men would like them to consume alcoholic drinks and may over-drink in an effort to attract men.
Web-Based Brief Alcohol Intervention Effective for Mandated College Students
Brief alcohol intervention involving personalized personal normative feed-back had greater reductions in weekly drinking quantity, peak alcohol consumption, and frequency of drinking to intoxication than did students who received web-based alcohol education.
More Articles
- Electronic Interventions Effective for College and University Student Drinking
- University Tailgating Policy and Students’ Drinking Behavior and Problems
- An Erroneous and Misleading Report on College Student Drinking & Drugs from the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA)
- College Parties and Alcohol Drinking Abuse
- Alcohol Medical Emergency Amnesty at Colleges and Universities
- “Choose Responsibility” Proposes Program to Reduce Underage Alcohol Abuse
- Early Friday Classes Reduce College Student Drinking Abuse
- College Alcohol & Drug Abuse Report from CASA (Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse)
- BASICS (Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention of College Students) is Effective
- Talk About Alcohol & Drinking with Your College-bound Student
- Failed “A Matter of Degree” Program Claims Success
- AMA Poll on Spring Break: Faulty and Deceptive “Media Advocacy Tool”
- College Student Alcohol-Related Deaths: 36 or 1,400 Per Year?
- Effective and Ineffective College Alcohol Policies
- Laxer Laws Could Prevent Irresponsible Drinking
- ABCs of Alcohol Enforcement
- Underage Drinking: Diversion/Education vs. Punishment
- College Student Drinking Rates
- Social Norms Marketing is Highly Effective
- Reducing College Drinking
- Most College Students are of Legal Age
- The Social Norms Marketing Approach
- Animal House and College Drinking
- Heavy Collegiate Drinking Decreases
- A Campus/Community Coalition to Reduce Alcohol-Related Problems
- Party Schools
- Dying to Drink
- Best Kept Secret on Campus
- Campus Drinking: What's Really Going On
- College Student Drinking

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