Project e-PBI+ - Parent Intervention to Reduce College Student Drinking and Cannabis Use

The e-PBI+ is a preventive parent-based intervention emphasizing parent-teen communication on drinking/risks of alcohol abuse, with the addition of data-driven cannabis content to guide parent communications with their students (e.g., cannabis content focusing on the endocannabinoid system; acute and chronic cannabis use effects on the brain, cognition, and development; THC potency in present-day cannabis; cannabis use effects on mental and physical health, including psychosis, depression, and anxiety; respiratory/cardiovascular/sleep problems; cannabidiol (CBD) content, myths; and cannabis effects on psychosocial function). Together the goals are to reduce alcohol and cannabis use in college students.

"The e-PBI is currently a model prevention resource at NIAAA's College Alcohol Intervention Matrix and the research was discussed in the most recent Surgeon General's Report as one of two prevention approaches that met the rigorous criteria to be considered efficacious. The first section of the e-PBI provides an introduction to the problem of substance use. The second section focuses on specific skill building strategies that parents can use to improve communication channels with their teen. Third is a section that addresses peer influence and provides strategies for developing assertiveness. The fourth section is an in-depth discussion of underage drinking, physiological and psychological effects, mixing alcohol with other drugs, motives for why students drink and don't drink, warning signs, risky binge-type drinking, impaired driving, riding with impaired drivers, alcohol and sexual assault, and how to communicate about parents' experiences when they were young."