Why Get Involved?

• If you are a student, parent, faculty, administrator or alumnus and want to make a difference in the precious lives of people seeking a healthy and safe environment to study, play and work in---- we need your help.

FACTS

• Each month 49 percent of full-time college students, about 3.8 million, binge drink and/or abuse prescription and illegal drugs.
• In 2005, approximately 1.8 million of those students, 22.9 percent, met the medical criteria for substance abuse and dependence.
• Estimated 310,000 U.S. college students smoke marijuana daily and 636,000 students use illegal drugs (other than marijuana), such as cocaine and heroin.
• More than 97,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 are victims of alcohol-related sexual assault or date rape.