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Lombardi, Julie; Dupain, Mandi – Excellence in Education Journal, 2019
Areas of critical health concerns for colleges and universities across the nation focus on substance abuse including alcohol and other drugs. Our State-Supported Regional University (SSRU) continues to implement a substance abuse prevention and awareness campaign. The SSRU administered the American College Health Association National College…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Prevention, State Universities, Undergraduate Students
Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Violence Prevention, 2011
A central feature of the U.S. Department of Education's Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Violence Prevention is the promotion of multiple prevention strategies that affect campus and surrounding community environments as a whole and can, thereby, have a large-scale effect on the entire campus community. In outlining the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prevention, Politics of Education, Public Policy
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Amundsen, Ellen J.; Ravndal, Edle – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2010
Aim: To test whether the school-based Olweus prevention programme against bullying may have lasting effects on substance use, a hypothesis based on the characteristics of bullies having misconduct behaviour associated with substance use. Methods: The Olweus programme was introduced from grades 7 through 9 in four schools and monitored up to grade…
Descriptors: Experimental Schools, Bullying, Marijuana, Prevention
US Department of Education, 2008
In response to recent alcohol-related tragedies and to ongoing concern about unacceptable levels of alcohol and other drug use on college campuses, Congress authorized the U.S. Department of Education to identify and promote effective campus-based prevention programs. Since 1999, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded approximately $3.5…
Descriptors: Campuses, Alcohol Abuse, Drinking, Prevention
Ertle, Vicki, Ed. – 1993
This idea book includes descriptions of more than 70 school- and community-based programs, projects, and special events designed to help create schools and communities free from alcohol and other drugs and violence. The descriptions of prevention and intervention efforts come from nine states (Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada,…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Drug Use, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Dulaney, Charles N. – 1995
The Wake County Public School System used Alcohol and Drug Defense Program (ADD) federal funds in 1994-95 to reduce the impact of drugs and alcohol on the system's 12 high schools by implementing a Student Assistance Program (SAP). SAP provides intervention and support for students identified as being at risk of substance abuse because of academic…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Drinking, Drug Abuse, Drug Use
Gardner, Stephen E., Ed.; And Others – 1994
In 1993, "Signs of Effectiveness in Preventing Alcohol and Other Drug Problems" appeared. It addressed alcohol and other drug use as a health problem influenced by risk factors in five life spheres or domains: individual, family, school, peer group, and community. Like its predecessor, "Signs of Effectiveness II" reports on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Children, Delinquency