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Substance Use and College Student Health
Daniel EisenbergUniversity of Michigan
Workshop on “Future Technology to Preserve College Student Health and Foster Wellbeing”
Northwestern University, July 30, 2015
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Outline of Presentation
Basic Facts about Substance Use in College Populations
Our Approach: Link with Mental Health
Core Challenge: Engagement (of students, researchers, providers, administrators, policymakers)
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Basic Facts: Prevalence of Substance Use among College Students
Binge drinking (past 2 weeks) 41%
Cigarette smoking (past 30 days) 13%
Marijuana use (past 30 days) 16%
(2015 Healthy Minds Study, N~15,000)
Similar statistics to
Alcohol use disorder 20% (vs 17% same-age non-college)
Drug disorder 5% (vs 7% same-age non-college)
Nicotine dependence 15% (vs 21% same-age non-college)
(2001-2002 NESARC, reported in Blanco et al., 2008 Arch Gen Psych)
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Our Approach: Link with Mental Health
Psychological distress: cause and consequence of risky substance use
Major depressive symptoms significantly correlated with binge drinking (Pedrelli et al., 2015 manuscript submitted for
publication)
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Core Challenge: Engagement
Engaging students in:
helping themselves
mental health services
positive coping skills
helping others
bystander/upstander behaviors
intervention development, testing, dissemination
Tinyshifts: Brief Videos to Promote Help-seeking and Coping Skills
“Tinyshifts” on YouTube
Economic Case for Mental Health Services
Eisenberg, D., Golberstein, E., Hunt, J. (2009). Mental Health and Academic Success in College. B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 9(1) (Contributions): Article 40.
Contact Information
Daniel Eisenberg: [email protected]
Healthy Minds team: [email protected]
Web: www.healthymindsnetwork.org
College Mental Health Research Symposium:
March 8-9, 2016 in Ann Arbor (please join us!)