“…Brief Motivational Interventions (BMIs), often variations of Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention in College Students (Dimeff et al., ), are generally efficacious interventions for reducing overall use and consequences (Carey et al., , , ; Ray et al., ; White et al., ). However, a recent study has suggested that effects of these interventions remain small (Huh et al., ), and to date, BMIs addressing general alcohol use and consequences have not demonstrated an ability to reduce pregaming frequency or quantity (see Pedersen, ). A recent study (Borsari et al., ) that delivered BMIs with college students who were sanctioned for a drinking offense and also had not responded to a brief advice session found that BMIs did not affect pregaming frequency even when pregaming was explicitly discussed (quantity was not assessed).…”