The College of Health, Education, and Human Development (HEHD) Department of Public Health Sciences is collaborating with the National Insitute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and other universities to study and subsequently form a tailored response to the issue of high-risk drinking among students. Clemson is one of 15 universities nationwide to be selected for participation in the NIAAA Rapid Response to College Drinking cooperative research project, a program to provide timely research and intervention to prevent or reduce alcohol-related problems among college students.
The project incorporates data on the specific high-risk drinking environments and peer influences unique to Clemson University into training and awareness programs that improve resistance to alcohol-related problems among first year students. During the first year of this three-year study the HEHD investigative team will conduct wide-ranging focus groups, interviews, and surveys while compiling university and community data on alcohol abuse and problems among first year students. The team is also using environmental scanning techniques to identify specific high-risk surroundings at the university that promote alcohol abuse among first year students. This data will be used in the second and third years of this project to provide intervention programs specifically tailored to high-risk demographics at Clemson University and will be part of an intervention program for first-year students who have committed an alcohol violation in their first semester. The intervention will create individualized, brief motivational enhancement approaches and cognitive-behavioral skills training to help students resist the influence of specific social, cultural and physical contexts associated with over indulgent drinking behaviors. By using current baseline data the investigative team plans to develop interventions that will be more effective in reducing alcohol abuse among students than the general "one size fits all" approach that currently seem to dominate alcohol abuse prevention programs.
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