Healthy Minds Study:
Examining Student Mental Health

Spring 2025

Content Notice

This report contains mental health–related topics, including suicide-related topics. Some readers may find this material sensitive or distressing. Readers are encourged to engage with this content at their own pace and to access support resources as needed.

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Additional Student Health Outcomes

This section examines results on students’ alcohol use, nicotine use, drug use, and experiences of interpersonal violence.

Alcohol Use

Alcohol use was assessed in the survey by asking students about their alcohol consumption in the past two weeks.

Any alcohol use was defined as having at least one drink of alcohol in the past two weeks.

Binge drinking was defined as consuming 4 or more (female), 5 or more (male), or 4 or 5 or more (non-binary) alcoholic drinks in a row, where one drink is a can of beer, a glass of wine, a wine cooler, a shot of liquor, or a mixed drink. This survey asked whether students had binge drank 1+ times or 3+ times in the past two weeks.

Figure 1: Alcohol Use in FC Students

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Nicotine Use

Nicotine use was assessed in the survey by asking students about their use of various nicotine-containing products, including cigarettes, nicotine vapes, chewing tobacco, nicotine pouches (e.g., Zyn), and smoking cessation aids.

Figure 2: Nicotine Use in FC Students

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Drug Use

Drug use was assessed in the survey by asking students about their use of various drugs recreationally in the past 30 days, including cannabis products, cocaine, heroin, opioids, benzodiazepines, methamphetamines, other stimulants, ecstasy/MDMA, ketamine, LSD, psilocybin, kratom, and other drugs.

Figure 3: Drug Use in FC Students

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Interpersonal Violence

Interpersonal violence was assessed by asking students if they had experienced various forms of physical or emotional abuse since they began as a student at FC (adapted from HITS scale), including being physically hurt, insulted or talked down on, threatened with harm, screamed or cursed at, or harassed.

Figure 4: Experiences of Interpersonal Violence in FC Students

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