A colleague has contacted me asking what I know about efforts to
combat/address student involvement in "Power Hour" activities, i.e.,
attempting to drink a shot of beer a minute for an hour or roughly 7 beers
in an hour. Although not an unheard-of rate for college students, this is
a drinking game that can have disastrous results for many if not most.
Here are a couple "online references" to this phenomenon, but I and my
colleague are interested in finding out if any schools are specifically
targeting this drinking game with any educational or
prevention/intervention efforts...and how effective you believe they have
been.
1. "Power Hours" web site typical of the many online drinking game web
sites: http://www.powerhourvx.com/
2. Minnesota's attempt to address "Power Hour" issue:
http://www.mnsu.edu/news/read.php?id=old-1112967646
3. The Wickipedia article on "Power Hour":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Hour
Interestingly, Google "power hour" and "drinking" and you get 126,000
hits, most of which relate to drinking games...It would seem that we do
have some stiff competition for our low-risk messages!
Please feel free to contact me directly at chapman.phd_at_gmail.com as a
"reply" to this note will send mail to the entire list.
Best regards,
Robert
Robert J. Chapman, PhD
Coordinator, AOD Program
Associate Faculty, Clinical/Counseling Psychology
La Salle University
1900 W. Olney Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19141-1199
Phone: 215-951-1357 Fax: 215-951-1451
mailto:chapman_at_lasalle.edu
home page http://www.robertchapman.net
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