Read the full text of this article. Social pressure, not peer pressure, leads students to drink Last year, episodes of binge drinking on college campuses resulted in several student deaths due to alcohol-related causes. But many students, including non-drinkers, don't see drinking as a big problem. I don't think students are concerned. Conversations with students confirmed her assessment.
Students do express concern about safety.
While general warnings about the dangers of drinking do not seem to faze them, they often have picked up on one or two safety points from intervention efforts. This is consistent with research, which has found that while students retain the information they have learned about drinking, it doesn't affect their actions. The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, Sept. 1998, page 1. Read the full text of this article. An experimental, brief intervention project involving motivational interviews with alcohol-positive adolescents brought into hospital emergency departments is showing good results.