What about strategies that help individual students with drinking problems?
Most of the strategies described above emphasize changing campus and community environments
rather than intervening in the problem behaviors of individual students. These environmental
strategies can have an effect on many students, the campus culture, and the entire community.
Other strategies can be useful for individual students who have or may be developing alcohol
problems. A study of brief interventions at student health centers to high-risk-drinking students
found that the program resulted in significantly decreased alcohol consumption, high-risk
drinking, and alcohol-related harms (Schaus et al., 2009). Such programs can be useful and an
important complement to broader prevention strategies.