The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Mistake Colleges Make About Student Drinking

We've got it all wrong when it comes to preventing high-risk drinking on college campuses.

Despite conventional wisdom, the alcohol problem colleges face is not mainly about high-risk drinkers, and the solution is not about intervening with them alone. If it were, we'd have declared success long ago because we...

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