{"id":7913,"date":"2017-09-12T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/?p=7913"},"modified":"2023-09-12T11:01:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T18:01:17","slug":"partnership-aims-to-reduce-alcohol-harms-on-canadian-campuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/partnership-aims-to-reduce-alcohol-harms-on-canadian-campuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Partnership aims to reduce alcohol harms on Canadian campuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-six universities and colleges have teamed up with the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cclt.ca\/Eng\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>and Universities Canada in an effort to curb high-risk drinking.<\/p>\n<p>The<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cclt.ca\/Eng\/collaboration\/Postsecondary-Education-Partnership-Alcohol-Harms\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Postsecondary Partnership \u2013 Alcohol Harms<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>(PEP-AH), as it\u2019s called, is connecting students and administrators with health experts to create campus programs to reduce harms related to binge drinking.<\/p>\n<p>While Canadian universities have individually been grappling with the issue for decades, this partnership represents a more collaborative approach, said Scott Duguay, co-chair of PEP-AH and associate vice-president, enrolment management, at St. Thomas University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re offering resources and ideas and best practices but allowing a lot of space for individual members to build their own plans,\u201d Mr. Duguay said. \u201cWe strongly encourage institutions that are partners to have a campus team that oversees alcohol harm reduction programming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A 2016 survey of 43,780 students from 41 Canadian campuses affirmed the challenges institutions face with the prevalence of binge drinking.<\/p>\n<p>More than a third of students surveyed reported having five or more drinks the last time they partied or socialized, and many reported physically injuring themselves (18 percent), having unprotected sex (24 percent), forgetting where they were or what they did (29 percent) and doing something they later regretted (38 percent) due to alcohol.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.universityaffairs.ca\/news\/news-article\/partnership-aims-reduce-alcohol-harms-canadian-campuses\/\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-six universities and colleges have teamed up with the\u00a0Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction\u00a0and Universities Canada in an effort to curb high-risk drinking. The\u00a0Postsecondary Partnership \u2013 Alcohol Harms\u00a0(PEP-AH), as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":7915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}