Sara Dolton is the new Operations Manager for the American Athletic Institute. She has doubled majored in Psychology and Justice Studies and has worked in the prevention field since 2006. Sara comes to us from the prevention field where she worked with the nationally recognized Northland Coalition in Missouri, for the past 3 years. (more…)
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During the Fall of 2009, with the assistance of the New York based “American Athletic Institute,” the support of the New Mexico Department of Transporation, the New Mexico Activities Association implemented an alcohol education program to combat underage drinking amongst students in New Mexico. This program was geared toward student-athletes and was focused on the negative effects alcohol consumption has on athletes’ lives and their athletic performance. (more…)
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Molecular biology teases out two distinct forms of alcoholism.lcohol abuse is the third leading preventable cause of death (defined as death due to lifestyle choice or modifiable behavior). In the United States alone it accounts for more than 75,000 deaths annually. To put it another way, if all cancers were miraculously cured tomorrow, those lives and the life years saved would be a drop in the bucket compared to what would be achieved by eliminating alcohol-related death and morbidity. In contrast to many other common conditions, alcohol abuse affects people whose life expectancy would otherwise be considerable, robbing them of an average 30 potential life years. The unmet medical needs are enormous. (more…)
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Dozens of colleges are up in arms over a new Anheuser-Busch marketing campaign that features Bud Light beer cans emblazoned with local schools’ team colors.
Grant GutierrezBlair Moray, a 21-year-old Louisiana State University junior, bought beer Thursday afternoon. Many colleges worry beer cans with school colors will spur underage and binge drinking, but LSU hasn’t tried to block sales. (more…)
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What’s wrong with adults letting teenagers toss back a few beers around a bonfire on a warm summer night? A lot. That much was dramatically made clear Saturday night, after a 15-year-old boy was flown by helicopter to a hospital intensive care unit. According to the Saginaw County Sheriff’s Department, the “extremely intoxicated” youth apparently fell and was injured. Thankfully, he’s expected to be OK. (more…)
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In another stand against underage drinking, the University of Kansas is making students younger than 22 take a course on the effects of alcohol before enrolling for next spring.
The free online course is the second campus policy connected to alcohol that’s been instituted since two alcohol-related deaths occurred on campus over the last academic year. Although the alcohol education course is required for spring enrollment, students won’t get college credits. (more…)
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