College students report some of the highest occasions of heavy drinking making it a continual public health concern. There are also concerns about how this drinking effects academic performance. This …
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Stimulant medication misuse is becoming more prevalent on college campuses. There has not been much research on examining how academics play into the motivation for this misuse. This study examines …
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Studies have found that prescription drug misuse is a growing concern among college undergraduate students (18-25 years old). This study looks at prescription drug stimulant misuse throughout undergraduate students and …
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Little research has examined the benefit-to-risk tradeoffs undergraduate students perceive when engaging in the nonmedical use of prescription stimulants (NPS). A new study examined the variation in college students’ perceived …
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A new study examined the relationship between student nurses’ perceptions of peer substance misuse, perceptions of harmfulness of substance misuse and their own substance misuse. Participants (N = 4033) were …
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Previous research has yielded mixed results regarding the efficacy of alcohol-based curriculum infusion (CI) programs. A new study assessed two forms of CI, information-only (IO) and service learning (SL), on …
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A recent study examined the rates of victimization and substance use among Native American students in comparison to other students and assessed the perceived impact of these experiences on academics. …
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Previous research has documented increased and problematic alcohol use during study abroad experiences for college students. A new randomized controlled trial was designed to prevent increased and problematic alcohol use …
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A recent study investigated the relationship between alcohol and marijuana use among college students, as well as the role of skipping class on the relationship between substance use and GPA. …
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A new study used behavioral economic principles to examine the effects of next-day class characteristics on alcohol demand among college students. In the first experiment, participants were 59 U.S. undergraduates …
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