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Colleges Continue to Look for Ways to Fight Binge Drinking
As alcohol-related deaths among college students are increasing each year, university and health researchers are trying to identify efforts that will reduce and prevent drinking problems.
Alcohol-related deaths among U.S. college students rose from 1,440 deaths in 1998 to 1,825 in 2005, and the number of students who reported heavy drinking increased from around 42% to 45%. In addition, 29% admitted to driving under the influence of alcohol.
"These are tragically and unacceptably high figures that indicate an urgent need for colleges and surrounding communities to implement evidence-based prevention and counseling programs," said Dr. Ralph W. Hingson, director of the National Institute on Alcohol and Alcoholism’s (NIAAA) Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research.
As part of the Rapid Response to College Drinking Problems Initiative, NIAAA researchers studied a wide variety of programs aimed at reducing harmful drinking. At the University of Central Florida, researchers found that brief motivational interviews conducted in a college health clinic were effective in reducing alcohol consumption and drinking-related problems.
At Northeastern University, students who received one-on-one counseling after alcohol and drug violations were drinking less after six months than those who didn’t receive counseling. At Loyola Marymount University, college women who took part in a motivational-enhancement group intervention as freshmen were drinking less 10 weeks later, but not six months later.
In Rhode Island and Washington, two studies found that programs in which colleges worked with surrounding communities to target student drinking were effective in reducing heavy drinking and off-campus alcohol-related incidents.
The NIAAA researchers also found that many colleges have made online alcohol policy information more available and accessible to students, parents, and others to try to reduce the campus drinking problems.