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Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Research Open Access The epidemiology of college alcohol and gambling policies Howard J Shaffer*, Anthony N Donato, Richard A LaBrie, Rachel C Kidman and Debi A LaPlante Address: Harvard Medical School, Division on Addictions, The Landmark Center, 401 Park Drive, 2nd Floor East, Boston, MA 02215, USA Email: Howard J Shaffer* - howard_shaffer@; Anthony N Donato - andonato@; Richard A LaBrie - richard_labrie@; Rachel C Kidman - rachel_kidman@; Debi A LaPlante - debi_laplante@ * Corresponding author Published: 09 February 2005 Received: 13 October 2004 Accepted: 09 February 2005 Harm Reduction Journal 2005, 2:1 doi:10.1186/1477-7517-2-1 This article is available from: /content/2/1/1 © 2005 Shaffer et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: This article reports the first national assessment of patterns of drinking and gambling-related rulemaking on college campuses (e.g., punitive versus recovery oriented). Analyses relating school policies to known school rates of drinking or gambling identified potentially influential policies. These results can inform and encourage the development of guidelines, or best practices, upon which schools can base futur