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"The e-CHUG is an intervention that provides information about personal consumption, potential risk factors, and a comparison to campus norms," said Walters. "College students tend to think they're roughly in the middle of other students in terms of their drinking. However, people tend to hang around others that drink like them. Heavy drinkers hang around other heavy drinkers. It's always surprising to me how many heavy-drinking college students are shocked to learn that they're at the 95th percentile of college drinkers. Yet because they hang around other people that drink like they do, it has never occurred to them that there might be a large number of students that don't drink nearly as much as they do. It's a wake up call."

Walters added that many college drinkers seem to prefer the e-CHUG format. "This is consistent with how most college students change their drinking anyway,
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