The current study aimed to replicate and extend the findings of Schuckit et al. (2012, 2015) in a population of first year college students at a large public university in the Southeast United States. We built upon the previous studies by replicating the protocol in a large sample from a university with different demographic, regional, and cultural influences, examining longer-term effects, and measuring the effectiveness of the prevention programs by assessing drinking behaviors across time in a group of control students from the same population. We hypothesized that low LR individuals in the tailored prevention program would experience a greater reduction in drinking frequency and quantity than those in the standard prevention program, and that individuals in the prevention programs would have lower levels of alcohol use than controls at follow-up.
