College Alcohol Study

The Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study (CAS) is an ongoing survey of over 15,000 students at 140 four-year colleges in 40 states. The CAS examines high risck behaviors among college students, such as heavy drinking, smoking, drug use, gun posession, violence and other problems confronting today's American college students.

Affiliation: Harvard School of Public Health
Web site: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cas/

Recent articles about College Alcohol Study

Dying to drink (Harvard Public Health Now, August 22, 2002)
Binge drinking holds steady (Harvard University Gazette, April 4, 2002)
Nonsmoking college students 40 percent less likely to take up smoking when they live in smoke-free dorms (School of Public Health, March 22, 2001)
Study confirms that students in "substance-free" dorms drink less (Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study, February 7, 2001)
Nearly half of college students used tobacco in one-year period (Around the School, August 11, 2000)

Affiliated researchers cited in HarvardScience