The Ann Arbor Police Department is awaiting autopsy results in the death of a 21-year-old Ann Arbor man this weekend.

Dustin Goodman, died Friday morning following a party at the Zeta Psi fraternity, located on East University Avenue in Ann Arbor.

Officials believe the death may have been a result of over consumption of alcohol.

“Every time I hear about another death like this, I feel like we didn’t do as much as we could to stop it,” said Cindy McCue, president of Be Responsible About Drinking Inc., or BRAD, a nonprofit organization working with high schools, colleges and others to promote responsible alcohol use.

McCue’s son, Bradley, an MSU junior, died of ethanol poisoning after drinking 24 shots on his 21 birthday in 1998.

Jasmine Greenamyer, alcohol and drug health educator at Olin Health Center, believes this indicates a growing trend.

“We have to admit that there is a small but tangible amount of students that do engage in high-risk drinking,” she said.

“There are some students that are throwing the rules out the window, thinking, ‘If I drank this much before and didn’t pass out, I can do it again.’”

There have been several local drinking deaths recently. Eric Blair, an 18-year-old Bay City resident, drowned in the Red Cedar River after drinking at an off campus party in October.

In 2000, U-M student Byung Soo Kim died after consuming 20 shots of Scotch whisky on his 21 birthday.

McCue believes incidents like these remain a major issue, and should be given more attention.

“This is more evidence of this (drinking) issue. I believe that it’s happening regularly, and nationally we’re focusing on the high-risk side of drinking,” she said.

Bruce Benson, director of the MSU Department of Police and Public Safety, agreed.

“Students here have gotten into a lot of trouble drinking excessively,” he said. “We know the problems associated with students and excessive alcohol has not gone away.”

Benson said the MSU police are working on finding solutions to combat the problem.

“We emphasize alcohol education and enforcement,” he said. “We need to do both, with other programs, to educate students. But we still have a long way to go.”

Some believe there needs to be an even more centralized focus with authorities and students to curb drinking deaths.

“Students themselves have to be the ones making the decisions to avoid these high risk situations,” McCue said.

Greenamyer said students need to become familiar with alcohol poisoning to combat the problem.

“No one knows when alcohol will affect their bodies in a detrimental way,” she said.