Comprehensive Efforts to Address College Student Alcohol and Other Drug Misuse and Abuse
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Other Drug Misuse and Abuse
Connie Boehm
Director, Student Life Student Wellness
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The Ohio State University Higher Education
Center (OSUHEC)
• Collaboration: OSU College of Social Work,
College of Pharmacy and Office of Student
Life
• Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
• Replaces USDE’s HEC
• Refocus national attention
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Mission
To help college and community
leaders develop, implement, and
evaluate programs and policies to
reduce problems experienced by
students related to alcohol and other
drug use
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Primary Functions of the OSUHEC
• Education and Training
• Research and Evaluation
• Technical Assistance
• Technology Development
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Core Principles
• Innovation
• Effectiveness
• Responsiveness
• Adaptability/adoptability
• Sustainability
and Other Drug Abuse and Misuse
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Key Initiatives
• Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to
Treatment (SBIRT)
• Collegiate Recovery
• Misuse of Prescription Drugs
• Policy Enhancement
• Research
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Misuse of Prescription Drug Use
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Further Information
• Dr. John Clapp clapp.5@osu.edu
• Dr. Ken Hale hale.3@osu.edu
• Connie Boehm boehm.19@osu.edu
Editor's Notes
This is everybody’s issue and need to pull in everyone in order to change a culture on our college campuses.
Need to enhance our approaches to this issue and make a change in the high risk alcohol and other drug use culture on our campuses.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Higher Education for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse for nearly 20 years assisted campuses across the country in developing and implementing alcohol and other drug and violence prevention programs that promoted campus and community safety. They closed their doors in 2012.
Recently, the Ohio State University was able to acquire funding to bring the HEC back on the OSU campus. We are thrilled about this opportunity!
Two million dollars in funding provided by
Refocus national attention on what continues to be the number one issue on college campuses impacting academic and social development of our students and their communities!
Ohio State is the perfect location for this Center for a variety of reasons.
Ohio State is one of the three largest universities in the country and identified by the National Science Foundation as one of the top 10 public research institutions and one of the top 20 (public or private) research institutions in the country. The resources available, and the research and exploratory perspective that will be available to this project will lend a creative and innovative approach to the work. We are confident that we can make a significant impact on college campuses and individuals around the country. Ohio State is excited by this opportunity and is ready to fill the void of this national need with flexibility, creativity and innovation.
Another reason is that OSU has been part of the DFAA Ohio’s College Initiatives addressing AOD prevention efforts since its beginning. This statewide initiative has grown from 19 initial campuses to now over 50 campuses together to address AOD issues.
In addition, OSU is so fortunate to now have Dr. John Clapp, former Director of the HEC, as an Associate Dean in the College of social Work and Executive Director of the OSUHEC. He wished that he could have been here today but he is enjoying some deserved time off!
Education and Training; 2) Research and Evaluation; 3) Technical Assistance and; 4) Technology Development. Our core principles will both guide the operation of the center and the prevention products and services we offer to our constituents.
The Center will provide a website, webinars, Itunes U Courses, a national conference, podcasts, and enewsletter.
First, as previously noted, AOD problems are pervasive and deeply entrenched in the college environment (Hingson, et al., 2009). The dynamic nature of student populations (e.g., new students enter, students transfer, students graduate, etc.) necessitates ongoing systems with proven effectiveness such as SBIRT (Woodruff et al., 2013). Programmatically, we will advance SBIRT as the core intervention from which a comprehensive continuum of AOD care can be built. Additionally, with new students, AOD use trends and the ways alcohol is consumed continues to change requiring responsive systems.
Further, because AOD problems are often the result of complex interactions between individuals and their environments, universal prevention programs like SBIRT and student recovery programs benefit from environmental policies that help reduce excessive drinking (Clapp et al., 2009; Clapp et al. 2003). Finally, we believe that the variation in programming across campuses represents an opportunity for innovation. For instance, SBIRT interventions might be implemented in different settings using different modes of delivery based on campus conditions. Traditional “top-down” models of science-based practice suggest “fidelity” in original intervention design is critical. Ohio State staff believes the core conceptual elements are critical; however, adaptations are necessary and lead to innovative breakthroughs.
These functions will be guided by several core principles including: a) responsiveness, b) innovation, c) effectiveness, d) adaptability/adoptability, and e) sustainability. These guiding principles are grounded on our understanding of the nature of college AOD problems and the typical systems colleges put in place to address them. Our core principles will both guide the operation of the center and the prevention products and services we offer to our constituents.
First, as previously noted, AOD problems are pervasive and deeply entrenched in the college environment (Hingson, et al., 2009). The dynamic nature of student populations (e.g., new students enter, students transfer, students graduate, etc.) necessitates ongoing systems with proven effectiveness such as SBIRT (Woodruff et al., 2013). Programmatically, we will advance SBIRT as the core intervention from which a comprehensive continuum of AOD care can be built. Additionally, with new students, AOD use trends and the ways alcohol is consumed continues to change requiring responsive systems.
Further, because AOD problems are often the result of complex interactions between individuals and their environments, universal prevention programs like SBIRT and student recovery programs benefit from environmental policies that help reduce excessive drinking (Clapp et al., 2009; Clapp et al. 2003). Finally, we believe that the variation in programming across campuses represents an opportunity for innovation. For instance, SBIRT interventions might be implemented in different settings using different modes of delivery based on campus conditions. Traditional “top-down” models of science-based practice suggest “fidelity” in original intervention design is critical. Ohio State staff believes the core conceptual elements are critical; however, adaptations are necessary and lead to innovative breakthroughs.
These functions will be guided by several core principles including: a) responsiveness, b) innovation, c) effectiveness, d) adaptability/adoptability, and e) sustainability. These guiding principles are grounded on our understanding of the nature of college AOD problems and the typical systems colleges put in place to address them. Our core principles will both guide the operation of the center and the prevention products and services we offer to our constituents.
The social norms marketing campaign, when combined with targeted events around recovery and healthy study tips, will help to raise awareness, increase knowledge and dialogue around the issue, specifically of using prescription drugs, without a prescription, as a “Study Aid”. We will focus on developing partnerships with academic units and academic support units (University Libraries, Tutor Centers and Learning Centers) to ensure that students are receiving both social norms messaging and information about how to appropriately study. We will address prescription drug misuse holistically, but will have a renewed focus on stimulant usage.
Social norms marketing is classified as a promising intervention by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Much research indicates that it is successful in changing high risk alcohol behavior and most successful when working with specific, targeted populations. Additional research projects are exploring the role of social norms in a broad range of areas including gambling, risky sexual behavior, and the misuse and abuse of prescription drugs. The need for social norms marketing is shown through research conducted by Ohio State’s Center for the Study of Student Life, which shows a large disconnect between the number of perceived students that misuse prescription drugs versus those that identify as misusing.
First, as previously noted, AOD problems are pervasive and deeply entrenched in the college environment (Hingson, et al., 2009). The dynamic nature of student populations (e.g., new students enter, students transfer, students graduate, etc.) necessitates ongoing systems with proven effectiveness such as SBIRT (Woodruff et al., 2013). Programmatically, we will advance SBIRT as the core intervention from which a comprehensive continuum of AOD care can be built. Additionally, with new students, AOD use trends and the ways alcohol is consumed continues to change requiring responsive systems.
Further, because AOD problems are often the result of complex interactions between individuals and their environments, universal prevention programs like SBIRT and student recovery programs benefit from environmental policies that help reduce excessive drinking (Clapp et al., 2009; Clapp et al. 2003). Finally, we believe that the variation in programming across campuses represents an opportunity for innovation. For instance, SBIRT interventions might be implemented in different settings using different modes of delivery based on campus conditions. Traditional “top-down” models of science-based practice suggest “fidelity” in original intervention design is critical. Ohio State staff believes the core conceptual elements are critical; however, adaptations are necessary and lead to innovative breakthroughs.
These functions will be guided by several core principles including: a) responsiveness, b) innovation, c) effectiveness, d) adaptability/adoptability, and e) sustainability. These guiding principles are grounded on our understanding of the nature of college AOD problems and the typical systems colleges put in place to address them. Our core principles will both guide the operation of the center and the prevention products and services we offer to our constituents.
