August 6th, 2025
This session will address recent patterns and longer-term trends in substance use among college students, focused particularly on substances with evolving policy environments, like cannabis, or newer forms of existing substances, like vaping for nicotine or cannabis. Presenter Dr. Ty Schepis will also explore higher risk groups of college students for substance use, and how the COVID-19 pandemic may have disrupted longer-term trends in college student substance use.
Learning Objectives
- Identify trends in college student use of the most commonly used substances, alcohol, cannabis, and nicotine.
- Understand college student misuse of prescription medications and use of other substances like psychostimulants and psychedelics.
- Assess how substance use trends may have been altered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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