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College Drinking: Website offering multiple resources for drinking awareness, developed by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

Social Norms Campaigns Can Help Reduce Alcohol Problems Among College Students (CADCA Newsletter, Aug. 14, 2008) new six-year study conducted at the University of Virginia has found that exposing college students to information that corrected misperceptions about campus drinking patterns resulted in dramatic reductions in alcohol-related negative consequences. <Read More>

Articles

Dropping to 18 brings in too much risky behavior
(By David Hodge, president of Miami University. Cincinnati.com, Aug. 24, 2008) First, the problem with alcohol use does not begin at age 18 or in college. More than half of the students arriving on college campuses today report that they have already engaged in alcohol consumption. Second, in addition to making alcohol more available to university students, most experts in the field believe that lowering the age limit will likely increase student alcohol use in high school and earlier. Indeed, while there is a broad perception that the lower drinking age in Europe leads to more responsible behaviors, more recent data show that binge drinking is a bigger problem in Europe than in the U.S. for those under age 18. <Read More>

College presidents are asking: Should the drinking age be lowered? (Cleveland PD, August 19, 2008) "If you asked college presidents in America, probably at least 90 percent of us would say that raising the drinking age has not been a positive thing on our campuses," said S. Georgia Nugent, president of Kenyon College in Knox County. "Let's look at, in a sense, education rather than prohibition." <Read More>

Beer Pong's Big Splash (Time, Aug. 18, 2008)
The boisterous game, in which players try to toss Ping-Pong balls across a table into cups of beer and drink if theirs are hit, is becoming so popular that it is in the midst of a backlash. Some cities and campuses troubled by the binge-drinking culture that accompanies beer pong are banning the pastime and its paraphernalia. <Read More>

Study Shows College Environment Contributes to Binge Drinking (CADCA Newsletter, July 17, 2008) Binge drinking among U.S. college students is linked to conditions in the college environment, such as a strong drinking culture and few alcohol control policies. That´s one of the key findings from the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study (CAS), a landmark study that surveyed more than 50,000 students at 120 colleges from 1993 to 2001. <Read More>

Disorientation: The first few days on campus