Is your school doing enough to curb student drinking? Before you answer, look at this. 

U.S. colleges aren’t doing enough to reduce alcohol consumption among students, says a new study from the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

The report analyzed responses from 351 college administrators who were asked if they follow recommendations from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s college drinking task force.

Among the responses:

• More than 22% of administrators didn’t know about the recommendations
• Only a third of college communities performed compliance checks for illegal alcohol sales
• 15% mandated server training
• 7% restricted the number of outlets selling alcohol, and
• Only 2% raised alcohol prices.

But that’s not to say schools aren’t doing anything right: 98% of colleges provided education on excessive drinking and two-thirds of schools provided interventions for high-risk and problem drinkers.

How is your school putting the breaks on student drinking? Let us know in the comments section.

Tags: alcohol on campus, student drinking