Cannabis (Marijuana)
Cannabis Use Disorder is a brain disease characterized by persistent cannabis-seeking and/or cannabis-taking behaviors, causing clinical and functional impairment, such as health problems, disability, and failure to meet major responsibilities at work, school, or home (DSM-5).
Prevention programs strengthen protective factors by addressing those most at risk with accurate information about cannabis, articulate the potential consequences of misuse/abuse, and offer activities unrelated to using. To find the right program for your community, check out SAMHSA's Resource Center.

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Collegiate Prevention Programming
Substance Use Disorder is a brain disease characterized by persistent drug-seeking and/or drug-taking behaviors, effecting a person's physical, social, emotional, and/or occupational aspects of a person's life (Shariatirad et al., 2013; Volkow et al., 2011).
Prevention programs strengthen protective factors prevention by addressing those most at risk with accurate information about alcohol and other drugs, articulate the potential consequences from their abuse, and offer activities unrelated to drinking or drugging. Below are examples of evidence based prevention for college campuses. To find the right program for your campus, check out SAMHSA's Resource Center, the Excellence in Prevention Strategy List, and the College AIM website.
Prevention Network does not endorse the following programs. All programs should be evaluated for effectiveness and cost by the individual institution. This non-inclusive list only serves as a possible resource.

Brief Motivational Interviewing (BMI)
BMI emphasizes personal responsibility and self-efficacy of participants, offering them personalized feedback on their alcohol use, risks, expectancies, perceptions of social norms, and options for reducing problems and consequences. Discussions are guided by a trained facilitator. Goals for behavioral change are set by participants (College AIM, 2018).
Bystander Intervention
Bystander intervention is a philosophy and strategy for prevention of various types of violence, including alcohol and other drug use, bullying, sexual harassment/assault, and hazing. Bystander Intervention is based on the psychological phenomenon: bystander effect or bystander apathy.
Collegiate Recovery Community/Program (CRC/CRP)
A collegiate Recovery Community/Program (CRC/CRP) is a supportive environment within the campus culture that reinforces the decision to disengage from addictive behavior. It is designed to provide an educational opportunity alongside recovery support to ensure that students do not have to sacrifice one for the other (ARHE, 2018).
Environmental Strategies
Environmental-level strategies aim to reduce underage and excessive drinking at the population level by changing the context (i.e., places, settings, occasions, and circumstances) in which alcohol use occurs, thereby reducing consequences (College AIM, 2018). For more information, join Michigan Coalition to Reduce Underage Drinking (MCRUD), check out your local coalitions, or set up a meeting with your State representative and area law enforcement.
Multicomponent Alcohol Programming
Multicomponent Alcohol Programming approaches target alcohol misuse by teaching students an array of alcohol-related skills (e.g., drink refusal, monitoring alcohol use, spacing drinks, advanced planning) and providing associated education to support skill use (College AIM, 2018).
Parent Based Prevention Approaches
Parent-based alcohol communication training is a campus-sponsored program for parents of students, particularly incoming freshmen, to train parents to effectively talk with their children about alcohol use, avoidance, and consequences (College AIM, 2018).
Peer Education
Peer educators can help raise awareness, provide accurate information, and help their classmates develop skills to change behavior. Peer education is based on the reality that many people make changes not only based on what they know, but on the opinions and actions of their close, trusted peers.
Personalized Feedback Intervention (PFI)
PFI programs use a web-based assessment to generate graphic personalized feedback about students’ alcohol use, risks, expectancies, perceptions of social norms, and drinking motives. Feedback is delivered electronically or by mail and is not discussed with a trained facilitator (College AIM, 2018).
Social Norms Campaign
The basic idea behind a social norms marketing campaign is to turn campus alcohol and other drug use perceptions around by using campus-based statistics to inform students about the true levels of alcohol consumption among their peers.
Other Programming
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Alex Wray, MIHEN Coordinator
(517) 393-6890 ext. 120
