Download or read book Alcohol Alert No 58 Changing the Culture of Campus Drinking written by Raynard Kington and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drinking on college campuses is more pervasive and destructive than many people realize. The extent of the problem was recently highlighted by an extensive 3-year investigation by the Task Force on College Drinking, commissioned by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). The Task Force reports that alcohol consumption is linked to at least 1,400 student deaths and 500,000 unintentional injuries annually (1). Alcohol consumption by college students is associated with drinking and driving, diminished academic performance, and medical and legal problems. Nondrinking students, as well as members of the surrounding community, also may experience alcohol-related consequences, such as increased rates of crime, traffic crashes, rapes and assaults, and property damage. For example, each year, more than 600,000 students are assaulted by other students who have been drinking (1). Yet efforts to reduce student drinking have largely been unsuccessful, in part because proven, research-based prevention strategies have not been consistently applied. This "Alcohol Alert" presents key findings from the Task Force's landmark report, "A Call to Action: Changing the Culture of Drinking at U.S. Colleges." It describes the factors that influence college drinking, approaches to help college administrators address the problem, and resources for more detailed information on this important topic. "Alcohol Alert," a publication of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, provides timely information on alcohol research and treatment to health professionals and other interested people.
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Download or read book Understanding the High Functioning Alcoholic written by Sarah A. Benton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-02-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is the typical alcoholic among the 12.5 million living in the United States now? Many, if not most of us when asked that question, would envision a skid row bum or someone at least out of work or with little education locked into a low-skill, low-paying job. But that is not accurate, according to the results of a national study released in June, 2007 by the National Institutes of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The NIAAA determined that alcoholics in the United States really fall into five subtypes, including nearly 20 percent who are highly functional alcoholics, well-educated with good incomes. They include corporate presidents, powerful politicians, police, lawyers, doctors, scientists, and other highly-skilled, highly-educated people who are middle- to high-income and by most accounts successful. In this unprecedented book, mental health counselor Sarah Benton takes us into the worlds and minds of so-called high-functioning alcoholics, to understand how people so intelligent and achievement-oriented get drawn into states in which they secretly cannot control their liquor consumption but still manage to excel in their careers. The book includes a look at celebrity alcoholics like singer Eric Clapton and actor/comedian Robin Williams, as well as alcoholics in high positions including Chris Albrecht, former Chairman and CEO of HBO. Other high-profile people included in this book are Miss USA 2007 Tara Conner and football legend Joe Namath. With her own story of alcoholism and her recovery woven into the text, Benton takes us into the lives and challenges of these well-educated and successful people, seeking to understand how, when, and why they became addicted, as well as the reasons their alcoholism is, for most, so hard to admit, cope with, and recover from.
Download or read book The College Precipice written by Anna L. Davis and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precipice: a steep cliff, or situation of great peril College is a blast. But it can also be risky - did you know that many Christian women fall away from their faith or become less confident during college? But it doesn't have to be this way. Using personal anecdotes from female students and graduates, this book offers help for women who want to develop a God-centered confidence during their undergraduate years. Topics include: letting God guide your dreams, how to cope with falling into sin, steps toward God-driven decisions, and making sense of feminism on campus. The final part of the book (Beyond the Precipice) looks at ideas that women usually keep in the back of their minds during college, like marriage and children. An underlying theme throughout is that women who trust God with their daily lives during college, even with their own identities, will become confident adults geared for navigating life. Anna Davis graduated in 2001 from the University of Texas at Dallas. The party scene, career goals, and personal dreams all seemed to collide during those first two years on campus, creating intense spiritual distress. Later on, when two of her female relatives went to college, Anna saw them go through the same set of struggles. This book grew out of her conversations with them. Anna has more than 10 years experience as a writer and editor, with most of her work centered in medical editing and health ghostwriting. She also edits newsletters and other content for her home church in Allen, Texas, where she lives with her college sweetheart and their two young children.
Download or read book Alcoholism Sourcebook written by Amy L. Sutton and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides basic consumer information about the use and abuse of alcohol among people from adolescents to older adults. It is a fairly broad-based look at the psychological, physical, and social health effects of alcohol addiction. It is full of relevant information (73 chapters) for the general public. The first edition was published in 2000. Purpose: According to the editor in the preface, this book "presents comprehensive information about the use and misuse of alcohol among men, women, youth, and seniors, and it describes the effects of alcohol exposure on fetal development. The physical and emotional problems associated with alcohol dependency and alcohol's impact on family relationships, work, and society are discussed. A section on treatment describes medications and recovery programs." This volume is part of the Health Reference Series, which provides medical information for the general reader.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Criminology written by J. Mitchell Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 4407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume work offers a comprehensive review of the pivotal concepts, measures, theories, and practices that comprise criminology and criminal justice. No longer just a subtopic of sociology, criminology has become an independent academic field of study that incorporates scholarship from numerous disciplines including psychology, political science, behavioral science, law, economics, public health, family studies, social work, and many others. The three-volume Encyclopedia of Criminology presents the latest research as well as the traditional topics which reflect the field's multidisciplinary nature in a single, authoritative reference work. More than 525 alphabetically arranged entries by the leading authorities in the discipline comprise this definitive, international resource. The pivotal concepts, measures, theories, and practices of the field are addressed with an emphasis on comparative criminology and criminal justice. While the primary focus of the work is on American criminology and contemporary criminal justice in the United States, extensive global coverage of other nations' justice systems is included, and the increasing international nature of crime is explored thoroughly. Providing the most up-to-date scholarship in addition to the traditional theories on criminology, the Encyclopedia of Criminology is the essential one-stop reference for students and scholars alike to explore the broad expanse of this multidisciplinary field.
Download or read book A Call to Action written by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-19 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year as spring break approaches or when another promising young student dies in an alcohol-related tragedy, college drinking becomes a national issue. Although excessive drinking by college students is accepted as a rite of passage by many, alcohol-related tragedies never fail to shock us and to prompt calls for immediate action. When schools respond with well intentioned programs, but the problem persists, it is natural to wonder how much we really understand about excessive, college student drinking. Is it inevitable? Can we take steps to prevent it or reduce its consequences? Why have efforts to date proven ineffective? The fact is that since 1976, when the newly created National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) issued its only report on abusive drinking by college students, research advances have transformed our understanding of alcohol abuse and related problems. For example, we now know that a broad array of factors affect college student drinking behavior. These include an individual's susceptibility to alcohol, campus norms related to drinking, and conditions within the larger community that make alcohol readily accessible and fail to penalize inappropriate use. Together these influences contribute to a culture of drinking that is more damaging and deadly than previously recognized. This report, developed by the NIAAA-supported Task Force on College Drinking after 3 years of intensive discussions, describes our new understanding of dangerous drinking behavior by college students and its consequences for both drinkers and nondrinkers. Rather than debate how many drink how much, the Task Force focused on the consequences. What it found challenges many common assumptions about the size and nature of the problem. Not only do some 1,400 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 die every year as a result of hazardous drinking, but a half million suffer unintentional injuries under the influence of alcohol. Another 600,000 are assaulted by fellow drinking students and more than 70,000 are sexually assaulted. The data on academic achievement, damage to facilities, and health problems are equally alarming. The nature of existing data leads to the inference that some college students meet the diagnostic criteria for alcohol dependence as currently specified by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (DSM-IV), but are not receiving treatment. Although most students who exhibit dangerous drinking behavior during their college career mature out of heavy drinking, this behavior and its consequences are nonetheless cause for concern. In its report, the Task Force outlines a series of recommendations for colleges and universities, researchers, and NIAAA. What distinguishes this guidance from others is its firm reliance on scientific evidence and its call for collaboration between academic institutions and researchers. In response to the information and recommendations in this report, NIAAA is committing an additional $8 million over the next two fiscal years to the issue of college drinking. It also is collaborating with several college presidents to determine the effectiveness of policies aimed at reducing the problem. The chancellor of a university that recently suffered the alcohol-related death of one of its students said, "Our children's lives are at real risk, and universities need to make every effort to prevent any more lives from being wasted." This report underscores the wisdom of that advice and urges us to join forces in changing the culture of drinking on our Nation's campuses from one that fosters destructive behavior to one that discourages it.
Download or read book College Drinking written by George W. Dowdall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drinking is recognized as one of the most important problems confronting students on campus today, with major impacts on health and safety.This book answers crucial questions about why students drink, examines its complex links to campus crime and sexual assault, and offers new insights on how to address the issue.It differs from other studies of college drinking by dispelling the myth that the problem is universal. Dowdall’s research reveals that the incidence of alcohol abuse varies enormously between colleges, and in doing so identifies interventions and policies that have been effective, and those that have failed. His study is also unique in looking “upstream” at the broader cultural, organizational and social forces that shape this behavior, where most studies focus only on “downstream” behaviors, well after students have selected their college and have started drinking. Students and parents can take action to lower the risk of binge drinking by following the book’s recommendations, and consulting the data it provides about alcohol violations and crime at thousands of colleges. For administrators and student affairs personnel, it both defines and illuminates the issue, and outlines effective interventions.
Download or read book American Educational History Journal written by Shirley Marie McCarther and published by IAP. This book was released on 2022-10-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (The official journal of the Organization of Educational Historians) The American Educational History Journal is a peer-reviewed, national research journal devoted to the examination of educational topics using perspectives from a variety of disciplines. The editors of AEHJ encourage communication between scholars from numerous disciplines, nationalities, institutions, and backgrounds. Authors come from a variety of disciplines including political science, curriculum, history, philosophy, teacher education, and educational leadership. Acceptance for publication in AEHJ requires that each author present a well-articulated argument that deals substantively with questions of educational history. AEHJ will accept two types of original unpublished manuscripts not under consideration by any other journal or publisher, for review and potential publication. The first consists of papers that are presented each year at our annual meeting. The second type consists of general submission papers received throughout the year. General submission papers may be submitted at any time. They will not, however, undergo the review process until January when papers presented at the annual conference are also due for review and potential publication. For more information about the Organization of Educational Historians (OEH) and its annual conference, visit the OEH web site: www.edhistorians.org
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Download or read book A Call to Action written by National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism). Task Force on College Drinking and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Changing the Culture of College Drinking written by Linda Costigan Lederman and published by Hampton Press (NJ). This book was released on 2004-12-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reducing dangerous drinking on college campuses has received a great deal of attention from prevention specialists, researchers, and college health professionals. This book describes an innovative way to approach the problem of dangerous drinking among college students and describes an award winning prevention campaign.
Download or read book College Drinking written by and published by . This book was released on 2002* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) of the National Institutes of Health created the Task Force on College Drinking. The objectives of the task force are to provide research-based information about the extent of youth drinking and to recommend strategies to prevent drinking on campuses. The task force is comprised of college presidents, researchers, and students.
Download or read book A Call to Action written by Edward A. Malloy and published by . This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes our new understanding of dangerous drinking behavior by college students and its consequences for both drinkers and nondrinkers. The consequences challenge many common assumptions about the size and nature of the problem. Not only do some 1,400 college students ages 18-24 die every years due to hazardous drinking, a half million suffer unintentional injuries under the influence of alcohol, another 600,000 are assaulted by fellow drinking students and more than 70,000 are sexually assaulted. This report calls for collaboration between academic institutions and researchers and outlines recommendations for colleges and universities, and researchers. Illustrated.
Download or read book Safe Lanes on Campus written by Robert Zimmerman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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