College Student Drinking: Reducing Campus Alcohol Problems
October 30, 2017
Hosted by Dr. Brad Krevor with Dr. William DeJong, Kathie Durbin, Major Mark Willingham, Scott Wexler, Charles Curie
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Episode Description
Dr. Brad Krevor is joined by co-host Dr. William DeJong of the Boston University School of Public Health to discuss programs and policies that can successfully reduce alcohol problems on America's college campuses with Dr. Ralph Hingson, Director of Epidemiology and Prevention Research for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Dr. Hingson will describe the latest research on effective alcohol screening and intervention programs, online alcohol courses, and public health approaches that focus on changing the campus and community environment in which students make decisions about whether and how much to drink.
Alcohol Across America – A Project of the RRForum
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Alcohol Across America, hosted by Dr. Brad Krevor, examines trends and issues on the impact of beverage alcohol on economy, health, safety, and American culture. Each week, AAA focuses on one issue.
Alcohol and community: Kathie Durbin, Montgomery County Liquor Control explores how communities balance a vibrant hospitality industry with public health and safety. Maj. Mark Willingham, Alcohol Solutions, explores how alcohol liability litigation impacts over-service and over-consumption.
College drinking: William DeJong, Boston University, explores trends in student alcohol use and abuse with leading colleges and universities.
The changing alcohol industry: Scott Wexler, The Empire State Restaurant and Tavern Association, explores how the alcohol marketplace is changing and how the industry itself might be part of the solution.
Alcohol and health: Charles Curie, former Administrator of SAMHSA, explores innovations in understanding alcohol and health.
Dr. Brad Krevor with Dr. William DeJong, Kathie Durbin, Major Mark Willingham, Scott Wexler, Charles Curie
Brad S. Krevor, Ph.D. is President of the Responsible Retailing Forum Inc., RRForum, a 501(C) 3 non-profit foundation whose dual objectives are to identify and promulgate Best Practices for Responsible Retailing, and engage public and private stakeholders in examinations of RR policy. Dr. Krevor has been the Principal Investigator for National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovation Research awards to translate RRForum research findings into sustainable Responsible Retailing systems for cities, states and trade associations, and a US Dept. of Justice Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws research project to examine non-punitive strategies to improve age-verification. From 1990-2009, he served as a Senior Research Associate at the Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University. From 1989 to 1998, he was the Executive Director of the Tobacco Control Resource Center in Boston, a leading national tobacco control advocacy group.
Episode Directory
November 2017
October 2017
- 10/30/2017: College Student Drinking: Reducing Campus Alcohol Problems Listen Now
- 10/23/2017: Alcohol Responsibility Programming - from Birth to Maturity Listen Now
- 10/16/2017: Alcohol Addiction: The Latest Science and New Medical Treatments Listen Now
- 10/9/2017: Alcohol Flow Through Time Listen Now
- 10/2/2017: College Student Drinking: What's the Big Deal? Listen Now
