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In 2002 the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism (NIAAA) issued a groundbreaking report, "A
Call to Action: Changing the Culture of Drinking at U.S.
Colleges." This report was developed by the NIAAA-
supported Task Force on College Drinking after three
years of intensive discussions. It described new
understanding of dangerous drinking behavior by college
students and its consequences for both drinkers and
nondrinkers. Rather than debate how many students drink
how much, the task force focused on addressing the
consequences. In its report, the task force outlined a
series of recommendations for colleges and universities,
researchers, and NIAAA. At the core of the
recommendations is the recognition that successful
interventions occur at three distinct levels, referred to
as the 3-in-1 framework. This approach calls for
interventions to operate simultaneously to reach
individual students, the student body as a whole, and the
greater college community. Given the recommendations in
NIAAA's 2002 "Call to Action" and 2007 update, what are
colleges and universities doing when it comes to
addressing high-risk drinking and associated problems? To
answer that question, researchers at the Alcohol
Epidemiology Program at the University of Minnesota
surveyed 351 four-year colleges in the United States to
ascertain familiarity with and progress toward
implementation of NIAAA recommendations. According to
"Implementation of NIAAA College Drinking Task Force
Recommendations: How Are Colleges Doing 6 Years Later?"
administrators at most of the colleges surveyed were
familiar with NIAAA recommendations, although more than
one in five (22 percent) were not. Nearly all colleges
used educational programs--a Tier 4 strategy--to address
student drinking (98 percent). Half the colleges (50
percent) offered intervention programs with documented
efficacy for students at high risk for alcohol problems
(Tier 1 strategies). Few colleges reported that they had
implemented empirically supported, community-based
alcohol control strategies (Tier 2 strategies), including
conducting compliance checks to monitor illegal alcohol
sales (33 percent), instituting mandatory responsible
alcohol beverage service (RBS) training (15 percent),
restricting alcohol outlet density (7 percent), or
increasing the price of alcohol (2 percent). (Contains 2
resources.)
Date Published: 2016-03-09 14:42:34
Identifier: ERIC_ED538450
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