ü An estimated 40% of students who begin college don’t graduate from their initial school within six years. (http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/depression-leading-cause-college-drop-out/)
ü According to this year’s survey, 29.9 percent of students say they’ve been diagnosed with a mental health condition in their lifetime (http://discover.umn.edu/news/health-medicine/u-m-unveils-2013-statistics-student-health)
ü In 2011, the American College Health Association–National College Health Assessment (ACHA–NCHA—a nationwide survey of college students at 2- and 4-year institutions—found that about 30 percent of college students reported feeling "so depressed that it was difficult to function" at some time in the past year (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/depression-and-college-students/index.shtml)
Alcohol use was highly prevalent among students reporting poor mental health/depression: 81.7 percent of them drink alcohol (http://archive.sph.harvard.edu/cas/Documents/depression-pressRelease/
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