CONGRATULATIONS ABBY!!!

A note on shortcomings/speculations: Interventions were conducted at PWIs and transdiagnostic interventions could possibly improve implementation efforts. Let's take intentional steps to recruit underrepresented students so intervention development is occurring across different college contexts!

BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN!? 1) There are efficacious cannabis brief interventions. 2) CollegeAIM encourages using mix of alcohol strategies, same should be done for cannabis. 3) Effective strategies are all brief/rooted in motivational enhancement principles but don't exclude environmental strategies!

Side rant: As someone who doesn't test interventions, the hardest part of this review was learning all the acronyms (BMI, PFI, PNF) and different ways folks use them (sometimes interchangeably!). For sanity, we used the CollegeAIM's definitions and broke our results down that way (TY Dr. Cronce).

What did we find? 13 RCTs, 7 were effective: Single-session PFIs and BMIs (more on those acronyms in my side rant below) that engage students reporting cannabis consequences may be effective.

So, to even begin to create a College Cannabis Intervention Matrix, we need to 1st review individual-level literature in tier 1, and that's exactly what we did.

For my fellow history major/minors out there: In 1999 a task force on college drinking sparked comprehensive reviews of intervention literature, organized by tiers (e.g., tier 1 = individual-level approaches), a call to action, and eventually the CollegeAIM as we know it!

Most college cannabis interventions are adapted from alcohol interventions and it's unclear whether that works... Is there anything we can learn from the way colleges historically dealt with alcohol (spoiler: yes!).

Jason will talk about the history of college student drinking and NIAAA's College Alcohol Intervention Matrix; Jen will talk about implementation science, fidelity, and adaptation; and I'll focus on what works for cannabis/what that means for strategic planning...

At the NASPA Strategies Conference on Alcohol, Other Drug, and Violence Prevention, my colleagues and I are talking about Evidence-Based and Evidence-Informed Practices, including our review!

Beautiful day in Boston for a preconference!