Fitness

Study to consider college sports, gender and substance use

Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 22nd, 2004

The relationships between participation in high-school and college athletics, gender, substance use and other health-risk behaviors in college-age young adults will be the focus of a study conducted under a $471,000 grant awarded by the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse to researchers at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA).

"Our goal in this study is to sort out how different aspects of athletic involvement are related to risk-taking," said Kathleen E. Miller, RIA research scientist. "Ultimately, our findings will help to develop strategies for effectively incorporating school sports programs as tools for sex-, drug-, or...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2004-07-22)

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