Affiliation:
1. Associate director of the University of Washington's Addictive Behaviors Research Center, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and adjunct associate professor of psychology
2. addictive behaviors specialist and adjunct member of the faculty at The Evergreen State College
3. Acting assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Washington
Abstract
The current paper highlights the college years as a risk period for development, continuation, and escalation of illicit substance use and substance use disorders and reviews the literature related to the prevention and treatment of these disorders in college populations. Despite widespread implementation of college drug prevention programs, a review of the literature reveals few controlled trials targeting this population. However, alcohol prevention has been extensively studied, and many efficacious interventions for college drinking share theoretical and methodological underpinnings with interventions shown to be efficacious in drug prevention and treatment with other populations (i.e., school-based prevention, adolescent and adult drug treatment). These interventions could be adapted to target drug prevention on college campuses. Barriers to implementation and evaluation of these interventions on campus are discussed, and suggestions are made for future research and programmatic directions.
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Health (social science),Medicine (miscellaneous)
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