Jenny Hwang , PhD. – Associate Dean & Director of Counseling & Psychological Services

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LEARNING COLLABORATIVE ON HIGH-RISK DRINKING National College Health Improvement Project Stony Brook University Jenny Hwang, PhD. – Associate Dean & Director of Counseling & Psychological Services Smita Majumdar Das, Psy.D. – Assistant Director, Center for Prevention & Outreach Ahmed Belazi – Program Evaluator, Center for Prevention and Outreach Amy Hammock, PhD. – Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine Charles Robbins, PhD. – Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs Daniel Wolbrom, Chief of Stony Brook Volunteer Ambulance Corps David Scarzella– Director of Residential Risk Management Ellen Driscoll, LMSW – Assistant Dean of Students Gina Vanacore– Associate Director of Residential Programs Jerrold Stein, EdD. – Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Jim Fiore – Director of Athletics Lara Hunter, LCSW – Coordinator of Clinical AOD Services Lawrence Zacarese– Assistant Chief of Police, Director of Emergency Management Marjolie Leonard, Associate Director of University Community Standards Peter Baigent, PhD. – Vice President for Student Affairs Susan Dimonda– Associate Dean and Director of Student Life Providing comprehensive education of the highest quality should be, in part, effected through the promotion of an inclusive and safe campus community. Therefore, in recognition of the associated harms inherent to high-risk drinking, to both our students and the campus community at large, we aim to reduce the prevalence of student high risk drinking by 25% in two years. Narrative In 2009, our campus began implementing a bystander intervention campaign aimed at teaching students how to recognize high risk drinking environments, signs of alcohol overdose, and to call for emergency assistance when facing a acute intoxication event. This information is being provided through orientation, freshman 101 classes, Resident Assistant training, and peer education programs. As a concurrent feature of this effort, we have also created the Red Watch Band program which integrates awareness, recognition, and intervention into a peer context. Also, as part of student community standards, we require that each student involved in an alcohol related incident attend a substance education program. In some cases, students will be evaluated by an Alcohol and Drug Addiction Counselor, especially when the intoxication event involves medical intervention. Students have become involved in the campus response through programs such as the Red Watch Band or the local NCAA-sponsored effort to reduce drinking amongst student athletes through peer education and Student Athlete Council involvement. Nevertheless, we feel that until the culture of high-risk drinking becomes the exception to the norm, we will see continue to see cases such as in the 2010-2011 academic period, where a 19 year old male had attended a gathering in an acquaintance’s residence on campus. There was alcohol present at the gathering, and students were engaging in high-risk drinking. The students referred to a competitive drinking game named “30 Seconds” in which they were encouraged to consume as much of the bottle as they could in a 30 second period before passing the bottle on to the next student. Not feeling well, the student left the party and attempted to return to his own residence on campus. On approaching his building, the student began vomiting, became incoherent and eventually unconscious. This event was witnessed by other students who alerted the Resident Assistant on duty, who in turn contacted 911. After the student was transported to the local emergency department, it was determined the student had a blood alcohol content of 0.38%. Interventions • Programmatic Ratings • Screening and identification of high-risk drinkers • • No, not implemented • Follow-up of individuals identified as high-risk drinkers • • Medium: program systematically follows-up with some high-risk drinkers • Performing an evidenced-based, standard brief intervention • • Medium: program sometimes provides an evidence-based, standard intervention for many high-risk drinkers Screening - At this time, our campus does not use a screening process - Managing the Intoxicated Student When a student is found in what appears to be an acute intoxication, emergency medical assistance is called and the SBU Police Department along with the SBU Ambulance Corps responds. Consequent to the EMS evaluation, the intoxicated student is transported to Stony Brook University Medical Center. Concurrently, a notification from the campus police is sent to the Office of University Community Standards (UCS). In turn, UCS will subsequently contact that student and mandate an evaluation with a counselor within two weeks following the incident. Once the student contacts the counselor an apt is scheduled within 48hrs. The student then meets with the counselor for one hour and is provided with feedback on their drinking behavior, the nature of their behavior, and ways to prevent future incidents. If a referral is required for treatment or it is deemed that ongoing sessions are needed then the counselor will also be able to make that recommendation. LEARNING SESSION 1