Many students, and the public in general, believe that drinking alcohol is a normal part of the college experience. Unfortunately, students' efforts to "be sociable" or "fit in" can escalate into substance use behavior that puts their health and well-being at risk: One in four full-time college students have experienced past year alcohol abuse or…

The literature both supports and challenges the notion that adult children of alcoholics are a distinct and homogenous group. College students (n = 200) were placed into one of four categories: Adult Children of Alcoholics, Adverse Childhood Event Group, Alcohol and Adverse Childhood Event Group, and the No Adverse Event Group. Participating…

"Catalyst" is a publication of the U.S. Department of Education's Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention. This issue contains the following articles: (1) Campus and Community Coalitions--Getting Organized for Prevention; (2) Message From William Modzeleski, OSDFS Acting Assistant Deputy…

Use of the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (SASSI), a new instrument for assessing chemical dependency, was tested on 376 college students. The SASSI showed significant promise in discriminating between nonabusers, moderate abusers, and severe abusers. The need for an instrument impervious to social desirability effects is discussed.…

The incidence of drug use, the time of initial drug use, and the motivations for various types of use have been analyzed in this study. (Author)

This annotated bibliography was developed to provide those interested in alcohol and other drug prevention at colleges and universities, and in surrounding communities, with a ready reference of current, important, and available information resources. Although alcohol and other drug problems have been a focus at institutions of higher education…

Collected data on alcohol practice for Nigerian college students (N=300) in New York. Results were obtained using frequencies and percentages of responses to items relating to drinking practices. Results indicated a high degree of alcohol abuse among Nigerian students in New York. (Author/RC)

Questions related to drinking behavior are explored: (1) In what types of social environments are students drinking? (2) In what types of social situations are students drinking? (3) What are the major reasons for collegiate drinking? (4) What are the major reasons for not drinking? (CMJ)

In order to respond efficiently to what was thought to be a growing problem on the campus of Bradley University, a comprehensive survey of drug use and desire for help was administered to a sample of 371 students (about 10% of the student body). Approximately one-third reported some drug use, with alcohol and marijuana the two most widely used…

A general social class trend has been observed in the practices and attitudes of college students regarding sexual permissiveness, smoking, and drug usage. Of the socioeconomic classes examined, practices and attitudes appeared to be most liberal in the upper class, and most conservative in the lower middle class. (Author)

Self-administered questionnaires were collected from 534 college students and analyzed by path analysis, which explained up to 47 percent of the variation in certain kinds of problem drinking. The strongest single predictor of problem drinking was found to be quantity and frequency of consumption, but precollege drinking was also important.…

Several surveys conducted over the past few years indicate that serious alcohol use among students remains at high levels. Health officials say students must begin to consider alcohol as a drug and not different from illegal substances. (MLW)

a questionnaire on marijuana was completed by 460 students; one on alcohol was completed by 465 students. Results reveal that the relationship between the use of these two drugs is complex. Students' attitudes toward their parents are related to their use of marijuana but not to their use of alcohol. The use of alcohol is a pattern of continuity…