TY - JOUR
T1 - Use of policy, education, and enforcement to reduce binge drinking among university students
T2 - The NU Directions project
AU - Newman, Ian M.
AU - Shell, Duane F.
AU - Major, Linda J.
AU - Workman, Thomas A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for this programme came from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (US). The authors acknowledge the assistance provided by Michelle Maas in preparing this article.
PY - 2006/7
Y1 - 2006/7
N2 - This paper describes a programme, conducted over a 5-year period, that effectively reduced heavy drinking and alcohol-related harms among university students. The programme was organised around strategies to change the environment in which binge drinking occurred and involved input and cooperation from officials and students of the university, representatives from the city and the neighbourhood near the university, law enforcement, as well as public health and medical officials. In 1997, 62.5% of the university's approximately 16,000 undergraduate student population reported binge drinking. This rate had dropped to 47% in 2003. Similar reductions were found in both self-reported primary and secondary harms related to alcohol consumption.
AB - This paper describes a programme, conducted over a 5-year period, that effectively reduced heavy drinking and alcohol-related harms among university students. The programme was organised around strategies to change the environment in which binge drinking occurred and involved input and cooperation from officials and students of the university, representatives from the city and the neighbourhood near the university, law enforcement, as well as public health and medical officials. In 1997, 62.5% of the university's approximately 16,000 undergraduate student population reported binge drinking. This rate had dropped to 47% in 2003. Similar reductions were found in both self-reported primary and secondary harms related to alcohol consumption.
KW - College drinking
KW - Environmental management strategies
KW - Intervention programmes
KW - United States
KW - Young adults
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U2 - 10.1016/j.drugpo.2006.01.005
DO - 10.1016/j.drugpo.2006.01.005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33745699249
VL - 17
SP - 339
EP - 349
JO - International Journal of Drug Policy
JF - International Journal of Drug Policy
SN - 0955-3959
IS - 4
ER -