Research
The following selection of research relates to campus-based alcohol, other drug abuse, and violence (AODV) prevention, with a special focus on the scope of the problem and promising strategies and interventions. The citations are compiled on a monthly basis from 15 peer-reviewed journals serving as the primary source of college AODV prevention articles and from keyword searches of online research databases.
Ritalin/Adderall
Labbe, A. K., & Maisto, S. A. (2010). Development of the Stimulant Medication Outcome Expectancies Questionnaire for college students. Addictive Behaviors, 35(7), 726-729.
Advokat, C. D., Guidry, D., & Martino, L. (2008). Licit and illicit use of medications for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in undergraduate college students. Journal of American College Health, 56(6), 601-606.
Arria, A. M., Caldeira, K. M., O'Grady, K. E., Vincent, K. B., Johnson, E. P., & Wish, E. D. (2008). Nonmedical use of prescription stimulants among college students: Associations with attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder and polydrug use. Pharmacotherapy, 28(2), 156-169.
Arria, A. M., Caldeira, K. M., Vincent, K. B., O'Grady, K. E., & Wish, E. D. (2008). Perceived harmfulness predicts nonmedical use of prescription drugs among college students: Interactions with sensation-seeking. Prevention Science: The Official Journal of the Society for Prevention Research, 9(3), 191-201.
DeSantis, A. D., Webb, E. M., & Noar, S. M. (2008). Illicit use of prescription ADHA medications on a college campus: A multimethodological approach. Journal of American College Health, 57(3), 315-324.
Dupont, R. L., Coleman, J. J., Bucher, R. H., & Wilford, B. B. (2008). Characteristics and motives of college students who engage in nonmedical use of methylphenidate. The American Journal on Addictions, 17(3), 167-171.
Greely, H., Sahakian, B., Harris, J., Kessler, R. C., Gazzaniga, M., Campbell, P., & Farah, M. J. (2008). Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy. Nature, 456(7223), 702-705.
Loe, M. (2008). The prescription of a new generation. Contexts, 7(2), 46-49.
McCabe, S. E. (2008). Misperceptions of non-medical prescription drug use: A web survey of college students. Addictive Behaviors, 33(5), 713-724.
Johnston, L. D., O'Malley, P. M., Bachman, J. G., & Schulenberg, J. E. (2007). Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975-2006: Volume II, College students and adults ages 19-45 (NIH Publication No. 07-6206). Bethesda, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse, 307 pp.
Teter, C. J., McCabe, S. E., LaGrange, K., Cranford, J. A., & Boyd, C. J. (2006). Illicit use of specific prescription stimulants among college students: Prevalence, motives, and routes of administration. Pharmacotherapy, 26(10), 1501-1510.
Abusing Ritalin: dangers of prescription drug abuse (2001). Scholastic Choices 17 (1): 6.
Carter, G., Winseman, J. (2001). A prescription for healing the whole student. The Chronicle of Higher Education 47: B24.
Babcock, Q., Byrne, T. (2000). Student perceptions of methylphenidate abuse at a public liberal arts college. Journal Of American College Health 49 (3): 143.
Nicklin, J. L. (2000). The latest trend: mixing prescription drugs with other substances. The Chronicle of Higher Education 46: A58.