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by Change | 2 Feb 2009

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A new study shows personal alcohol interventions can reduce the amount people drink while attending college.

Personal alcohol interventions reduce the risk of binge drinking occurring among those at college, a new study shows.

Research published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology reveals motivational interviewing with feedback can cut the chances of alcohol abuse.

Scott Walters, associate professor at the University of Texas' School of Public Health Dallas Regional Campus, lead the study and found offering personalized feedback and a counseling session helped prevent this behaviour.

"College students tend to misperceive the drinking norms on campus, thinking that other students drink more than they actually do, and are more permissive of drinking and drunkenness than they actually are," he asserts.

He says many college attendees believed 43 per cent of others at the institution drank more than they did, despite the fact only 17 per cent actually consumed this quantity.

Those who had received an alcohol intervention consumed approximately 5.26 fewer drinks a week than a control group who had not received this treatment.

Recent figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics predict there will be a growth of 34 per cent in the number of addiction counselors between 2006 and 2016, the Boston Herald reports.

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