Sugar & Spice, I think you are right about a lot of the alcohol poisoning deaths being involved with events considered "hazing", I just don't like to call some of those events hazing because I think its a little misleading.
I think what happens is that a lot of times you have a bid party or some other type of event and you get people going into macho shot-drinking mode.
Like have a shot with every active brother. Or like when people turn 21 and they are supposed to do a shot for every year they have been alive. . .
I think in these cases no one is actually trying to haze or hurt per se, they are not thinking about the possibilities of extreme consequences. Because they do it every year and no one ever dies . . . until one does.
So if you planned events that you know usually have REALLY heavy drinking not to have hard alcohol it might help. I have even known groups to do that for Formals . . have a wine and beer bar only.
Usually people don't drink themselves into fatal alcohol poisoning in a normal bar setting . .. except on 21st birthdays.
Of course guys love to buy girls shots . .
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Originally posted by sugar and spice
Of course, sometimes this is difficult to limit -- sorority parties often take place at bars, so I'm not sure that you could officially limit people to wine and beer. And it doesn't eliminate the more-common problem of people having too much to drink and falling down stairs or out windows. In fact, most alcohol-poisoning stories occur during hazing, not parties, right? But it's still something to keep in mind.(emphasis added)
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