Linda Major | University of Nebraska Lincoln (original) (raw)
Papers by Linda Major
Metropolitan Universities an International Forum, 2000
International Journal of Drug Policy, 2006
In the United States (US), two out of every three full time college students report having drunk ... more In the United States (US), two out of every three full time college students report having drunk alcohol in the last 30 days. Problematic drinking is typically defined as drinking five or more drinks in a row on a single drinking occasion within the previous 2 weeks. Such drinking has been described as "binge drinking" by Wechsler, Austin, and Schuckit (1998) and as "heavy drinking" by O'Malley and Johnston (2002). A recent review of college student drinking rates-including data collected for the College Alcohol Study (CAS) conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health; The Core Institute's (CORE) Alcohol and Drug Survey conducted by Southern Illinois University; Monitoring the Future (MTF) conducted by the University of Michigan; and the National College Health Risk Behavior Survey (NCHRBS) conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-found that approximately two of every five American college students can be termed "binge drinkers" (Wechsler et al., 1998). The consistency of these various estimates suggests considerable validity to the conclusion that about 40% of those students who drink alcohol are doing so in a manner that puts themselves and others at risk for physical, emotional, academic, and legal harms. This level of binge drinking has been evident for some time. Wechsler et al. (2002) reported little overall change in drinking behavior and harms between 1993 and 2001. In the same period, harms experienced by drinkers did not decrease and, in some cases, showed slight increases. Harms experienced by students as the result of others' drinking stayed constant. This paper describes the effectiveness of a campus/community coalition that sought to reduce binge drinking and related harms among a sample of university students. The university was the Lincoln campus of the University of Nebraska (UNL), and the coalition was known by its program name, NU Directions (pronounced as "new directions"). The campus/community coalition reduce binge drinking and related harms Formed in 1998 as part of the A Matter of Degree (AMOD) program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the NU Directions coalition involved a wide variety of partners from both the campus and community, co-chaired by the City of Lincoln chief
Local Development & Society
Metropolitan Universities an International Forum, 2000
International Journal of Drug Policy, 2006
In the United States (US), two out of every three full time college students report having drunk ... more In the United States (US), two out of every three full time college students report having drunk alcohol in the last 30 days. Problematic drinking is typically defined as drinking five or more drinks in a row on a single drinking occasion within the previous 2 weeks. Such drinking has been described as "binge drinking" by Wechsler, Austin, and Schuckit (1998) and as "heavy drinking" by O'Malley and Johnston (2002). A recent review of college student drinking rates-including data collected for the College Alcohol Study (CAS) conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health; The Core Institute's (CORE) Alcohol and Drug Survey conducted by Southern Illinois University; Monitoring the Future (MTF) conducted by the University of Michigan; and the National College Health Risk Behavior Survey (NCHRBS) conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-found that approximately two of every five American college students can be termed "binge drinkers" (Wechsler et al., 1998). The consistency of these various estimates suggests considerable validity to the conclusion that about 40% of those students who drink alcohol are doing so in a manner that puts themselves and others at risk for physical, emotional, academic, and legal harms. This level of binge drinking has been evident for some time. Wechsler et al. (2002) reported little overall change in drinking behavior and harms between 1993 and 2001. In the same period, harms experienced by drinkers did not decrease and, in some cases, showed slight increases. Harms experienced by students as the result of others' drinking stayed constant. This paper describes the effectiveness of a campus/community coalition that sought to reduce binge drinking and related harms among a sample of university students. The university was the Lincoln campus of the University of Nebraska (UNL), and the coalition was known by its program name, NU Directions (pronounced as "new directions"). The campus/community coalition reduce binge drinking and related harms Formed in 1998 as part of the A Matter of Degree (AMOD) program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the NU Directions coalition involved a wide variety of partners from both the campus and community, co-chaired by the City of Lincoln chief
Local Development & Society