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A Decade of Partying at Temple What We Have
Learned About Temple Students Drug and Alcohol
Use during the Past 10 Years
Jeremy Frank, Ph.D., C.A.C. Coordinator Campus
Alcohol and Substance Awareness Tuttleman
Counseling Services 1810 Liacouras Walk 5th
floor Phone [phone] E-mail
jfrank_at_temple.edu
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Introduction
The CORE Alcohol and Drug Survey

• 39 item survey
• Demographics
• Drinking Behaviors
• Drug and alcohol use
• Involvement in campus and co curricular
  activities
• Consequences of use to self and others
• Perceptions of use in the campus environment
• Questions about high risk behavior

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Methodology
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National Trends 45 binge drinking

• Definition of Binge Drinking.
• Five drinks in a row for men
• Four drinks in a row for women.

Henry Wechsler, PhD. Harvard School of Public
Health (March 14, 2000)
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National Trends 1/5 or 23 of students drink 68
of all the alcohol consumed by college students
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National Trends 1/5 or 23 drink 68 of all
the alcohol consumed by college students
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National Trends College Effect

• People learn to drink in college
• 18-24 year olds in college drink more than those
  not going to school

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National Trends College Effect

• Half of incoming first-years are abstainers
• Under a quarter are binge drinkers

But after 6 weeks of college
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National Trends College Effect

• Binge drinkers rise to 45 percent (from 23 to
  45)
• Abstainers drop to 30 percent (from 50 to 30)

So

• Binge drinkers almost double and
• Abstainers decrease by nearly half

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More National Trends Alcohol

• 1st and second year students have more problems
  than 3rd and 4th year students
• Binge drinking appears to be down over the last
  several years
• But students who high risk drink are drinking
  more

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National Trends Pot and Prescription Drug Use

• Pot and prescription drug use on the rise since
  the 1990s

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The Temple Data Prevalence of Alcohol and
Other Drug Use
Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD)
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Annual Prevalence Alcohol and Other
Drugs Percent of students who report using each
drug at least once during the past year
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30 Day Prevalence Alcohol and Other
DrugsPercent of students who report using each
drug at least once within 30 days
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70 underage drinking
30 Day Prevalence Alcohol and Other Drugs of
students who report drinking alcohol at least
once within the last 30 days
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30 Day Prevalence Alcohol and Other
DrugsPercent of students who report using each
drug at least once within 30 days
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Heavy Use Alcohol and Other DrugsPercent of
students who report using each drug listed three
times per week or more
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Binge Drinking 5 drinks in one sitting of
students that engaged in binge drinking at least
once during the past two weeks
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Perceived vs. Actual use for TempleDifference
between student perceptions of alcohol and
marijuana use and actual use
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Be like Mikey
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Alcohol and Other Drug IssuesKnowledge about
campus alcohol and drug policy
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Alcohol and Other Drug IssuesStudents who do not
abide by university policies and regulations that
concern alcohol and other drug use
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Alcohol and Other Drug Issues

• Students who would rather not have drugs at
  parties they attend in and around campus

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Alcohol and Other Drug Issues

• Where alcohol use occurs on campus

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Alcohol and Other Drug Consequences

• Consequences resulting from alcohol and drug use

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Alcohol and Other Drug Consequences

• Consequences resulting from alcohol and drug use

• Public misconduct
• trouble with police or university authorities
• fighting/argument
• DWI/DUI
• vandalism

1/2

• Serious personal problem
• suicidality
• being hurt or injured
• trying unsuccessfully to stop using
• sexual assault

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Consequences
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Sex Drugs and Alcohol
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Alcohol and Other Drug Issues

• Student behavior in last 30 days

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Carried a Weapon
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Implications of CORE Research / Action Steps
92 of students said that a good Samaritan Policy
would be helpful to extremely helpful.
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Implications of CORE Research / Action Steps
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Implications of CORE Research / Action Steps

• Students who would rather not have alcohol
  available at parties they attend

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Implications of CORE Research / Action Steps

• Students who would live in a designated
• alcohol and drug-free residence hall

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Implications / Action Steps
Continue high quality research like Provost Lisa
Staiano- Coico is doing into the effectiveness of
programs to educate students about alcohol
awareness.
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Implications / Action Steps
students whose parents talked to them about
alcohol drank less and less frequently than those
who didn't receive a talk
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Conclusion

• We have to continue to conduct high quality
  research in order to really understand what
  trends are occurring among our students and what
  impact our efforts are having on our students
  behavior.

• Temple is not a party school
• Our diversity and numbers makes us very
  attractive to study for serious researchers
• The use of drugs and alcohol does change over
  time
• We have best practices and cutting edge
  prevention and intervention programs
• The more we collaborate and use our strength in
  numbers and capitalize on our areas of specialty
  we can better measure the exact nature of our
  efforts to combat drug and alcohol use