Binge Drinking

Websites

Site goal is to help teens stand up to negative pressures, or influences. The more aware you are of the influences around you, the better prepared you will be to face them, including the pressure to use drugs, pills, and alcohol.

College Binge Drinking

Latest information on binge drinking for students, parents, and educators. Produced by Elements Behavioral Health.

CollegeDrinkingPrevention.gov

Sponsored by NIAAA, and designed to change the drinking culture on college campuses. Includes alcohol facts; college and university alcohol policies; tips, techniques and statistics for campus personnel, media, parents, and peer educators. College Student Section includes interactive tools to see the effects of alcohol on the body, calculate BAC, calories and cost of drinking.

The BACCHUS Network

Actively promotes student and young adult based, campus and community-wide leadership on healthy and safe lifestyle decisions concerning alcohol abuse, tobacco use, illegal drug use, unhealthy sexual practices and other high risk behaviors.

Harvard College Alcohol Study

Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study (CAS) examines key issues in college alcohol abuse, including the tradition of heavy drinking on college campuses, the role of fraternities and sororities and athletics, the relationship of state alcohol control measures and college policies to this behavior, and the role that easy access to alcohol and low prices play.

Reducing Underage Drinking Through Coalitions: Youth and Adults United for Change and
A Matter of Degree

Two national efforts supported by The American Medical Association and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to confront the issues and problems associated with youth and alcohol, and create solutions through environmental change.

Preventing Adolescent Binge Drinking

Provides a comprehensive and cutting edge resource for information and evidence-based policies, programs and practices to effectively reduce binge drinking across a diverse youth population.

Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center (UDETC)

Statistics, publications free electronic seminars

Blogs

Sara Bellum blog - entry: "Binge Drinking Matters–To Your Brain"

Publications

Alcohol Poisoning - fact Sheet from College Drinking Prevention

Alcohol Poisoning - from The BACCHUS Network

Underage Drinking: Why Do Adolescents Drink, What Are the Risks, and How Can Underage Drinking Be Prevented?

A Snapshot of Annual High-Risk College Drinking Consequences - from College Drinking Prevention

Binge Drinking on College Campuses - fact Sheet from "Booze News"

Last Call for High Risk Bar Promotions that target College Students (Center for Science in the Public Interest)

A Call to Action: Changing the Culture of Drinking at U.S. Colleges: Report of the Task Force on College Drinking

High-Risk Drinking in College: What We Know and What We Need To Learn - from College Drinking Prevention

Harvard College Alcohol Study Binge Drinking Studies

Prevalence of Rape Higher in Heavy Drinking College Environments - from the Harvard College Alcohol Study