Mental health articles

Challenges to diagnosing alcohol use A complicating factor for diagnosis and treatment of alcohol diffi culties is the developmental stage of most undergraduate college students. At this age students typically feel invulnerable, and thus the consequences of substance abuse may have little or no impact on them. Also, since high-risk drinking is normative within some […]

continuum of use alcohol & drugs Alcohol is a psychoactive drug that has been around for thousands of years and has been the drug of choice on America’s college campuses according to virtually every national study on college students’ alcohol and drug use (Johnston, O’Malley, & Bachman, 1998; Meilman, Cashin, McKillip, & Presley, 1998; Presley, […]