A new study adds to the growing body of research indicating that nonmedical use of prescription stimulants for students without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder likely provides no academic benefits.
U.S. college students are more likely to drink and less likely to smoke than their peers who aren’t enrolled in school, a new survey finds. College students are also more likely to binge drink than 18- to 22-year-olds who are not in college.
A growing number of college students are trying to avoid alcohol-related weight gain through a practice known as “drunkorexia,” CBS News reports. Students skip meals, exercise heavily before drinking alcohol, take laxatives or diuretics, or vomit after drinking.
College students who have been impacted by a sibling’s addiction are invited to enter the second annual My Life as 3D Scholarship Essay Contest. The deadline is 8 p.m. EDT on Friday, July 1, 2016.
The opioid epidemic is increasing interest in college sober housing, PBS NewsHour reports. Sober dorms offer substance-free housing and activities for students in recovery from addiction to drugs and alcohol.
A new report finds 1.2 million full-time college students drank alcohol on an average day last year, while more than 700,000 students smoked marijuana, according to USA Today.
A survey of college students finds almost 8 percent say they have had drugs put into their drinks, known as “drink spiking.”
College students’ drinking drops during the summer, but spikes during the return to school in the fall semester, and during spring break, a new study shows.
A new online tool introduced this school year is helping colleges compare and choose interventions to address harmful and underage student drinking. The College Alcohol Intervention Matrix helps administrators find programs that are effective and fit into their budget, says Jason Kilmer, PhD of the University of Washington, who helped to develop the resource.
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The University of Vermont is pioneering a program that integrates residential and curricular elements to address substance abuse, according to NBC News.
Nonmedical use of Adderall, a medication used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, rose 67 percent among young adults between 2006 and 2011, a new study finds. The number of emergency room visits involving misuse of the drug among 18- to 25-year-olds also rose during this period, NPR reports.
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