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Substance-Free Housing Differences in Alcohol and Drug Use Among
CU-Boulder Undergraduates Spring 1999

(Regular Housing N=71, Substance-Free Housing N=54)



While no residence halls at CU-Boulder are designated to be entirely "substance-free," students living in University housing who request that their own living area be "substance-free" are paired with a roommate who made the same request. Below, differences are presented between students living in a "substance-free" environment and those in regular University housing.

[Note: We are relying on students’ self-reports of their housing classification, which may or may not be accurate. There is a possibility that some students in regular University housing may have classified themselves as living in "substance-free" housing because that is how they have interpreted general University policy restricting use of alcohol by minors. If some students have indeed misclassified themselves in this way the likely effect would be that actual group differences might be larger than those reported in the tables below.]

Summary of Substance-Free Housing Differences
  1. Students in substance-free housing are more likely to abstain from drinking or drink without bingeing.
  2. All indicators show decreased cigarette and drug use in "substance-free" housing.
  3. Students in substance-free housing are less likely to binge in High School or college than students in regular housing.
  4. Interestingly, students in substance-free housing are more likely to suffer from many of the negative outcomes of alcohol use, and in general, report more problems due to other students' drinking.

Graphs:

Results in tabular format



Graph of binge drinking rates by housing.
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Graph of high-risk alcohol consumption by housing.
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Graph of drinking and driving rates by housing.
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Graph of cigarette and other drug use by housing.
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Graph of high school and college binge drinking by housing.
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Graph of secondary effects of alcohol by housing.
*Does not include hangover, but does include driving after drinking
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Graph of secondary effects of alcohol by housing.
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Last revision 07/08/05


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