Alcohol Abuse in College

Alcohol abuse in college is a problem that many websites focus on. Some websites have been found to have more credible information than others.

One website which I have found to be credible is www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov. This website was created by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. This is a government agency that created a task force on college drinking in 1998. This website contains insights from different agencies such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the Department of Justice, National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration and many others. The goals of this site are to provide information about the dangers of college binge drinking and offer recommendations to campuses and research groups on how to deal with the problems of college drinking. This website is very informative for many different groups offering links to information for college students, college parents, college professors, as well as high school students and parents. Chapter 9 in the Drugs and Behavior text relates to this topic. This website is up to date having been last reviewed on September 9, 2005. This site is interesting because it gives a lot of detailed information broken up into specific groups of information for different groups of people. I feel this site could be useful for a lot of people in many different ways.