A new study has found that AlcoholEdu does work, but by Spring, freshmen are back to their old drinking habits.
After completing the online alcohol education course AlcoholEdu for College, freshmen significantly reduced binge drinking during the Fall semester. But by the Spring semester, these effects had subsided, and students who had taken the course would drink at similar rates to those who had not, according to a July study published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. The study observed 30 universities across the U.S., surveying students about their habits and decisions made while intoxicated.
Duke uses the two-part AlcoholEdu curriculum for incoming freshmen, as part of more than 500 campuses nationwide.
“No one would ever describe AlcoholEdu as a silver bullet, certainly, but I think the context is really the critical point,” said Brandon Busteed, Trinity ’99, founder and president of Outside the Classroom, the company that developed AlcoholEdu. “Although the headlines on this study tend to be ‘[AlcoholEdu] didn’t last past the first semester,’ the bigger news is that a nationally controlled study showed that it did last for a semester.”
Read the full story at the Duke Chronicle.
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