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On a typical weekend night in autumn, it is not unusual to find a bevy of freshmen huddled by the Johnston Gate shuttle stop, dialing phone numbers to find the exact location of the Quad party referred to them by a friend. Often ridiculed for their stereotypical mass movements from...
The study’s authors said they were aware of concerns that policies discouraging drinking on campus might cause drinkers to move farther away—and thus drink and drive more often.
But Henry Wechsler, principal investigator for the AMOD study and an HSPH lecturer, said that his long-running College Alcohol Study, which spawned AMOD, has not found any evidence that such programs are effective by themselves. Instead, Wechsler’s study showed that a combination of policies that limit...
The policies used in AMOD include: training for bartenders to help them better identify patrons who have drunken too much and identify fake driver’s licenses, requiring registration for keg purchasers, upholding stringent drinking-age laws, banning alcohol-related items from student bookstores, and expanding substance-free dorms...
From 1997 to 2001, students at the ten AMOD schools reported driving less frequently after drinking any alcohol, or having five or more drinks, than their counterparts at other colleges, Wechsler and his colleagues wrote in the December issue of Traffic Injury Prevention.