Teenagers and alcohol misuse in the United States: By any definition, it's a big problem

Addiction

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1489-1503

  Ellickson, Phyllis L ^a   McGuigan, Kimberly A ^a   Adams, Virgil ^b   Bell, Robert M ^a   Hays, Ron D ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ASIA; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEGRO; PREVALENCE; RACE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ALCOHOLISM; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; STUDENT DROPOUTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029808977     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1996.tb02253.x     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. BACHMAN, J. G., WALLACE, J. M., O'MALLEY, P. & JOHNSTON, L. D. (1991) Racial/ethnic differences in smoking, drinking, and illicit drug use among American high school seniors, American Journal of Public Health, 81, 372-377.
2. BARNES, G. M., WELTE, J. W. & DINTCHEFF, B. A. (1993) Decline in alcohol use among 7-12th grade students in New York State, 1983-1990, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 17, 797-801.
3. COATE, D. & GROSSMAN, M. (1988) Effects of alcoholic beverage prices and legal drinking ages on youth alcohol use, Journal of Law and Economics, 31, 145-171.
4. DIELMAN, T. E., SHOPE, J. T., LEECH, S. L. & BUTCHART (1989) Differential effectiveness of an elementary school-based alcohol misuse prevention program, Journal of School Health, 56, 255-263.
5. DUNN, P. C., GLASCOFF, M. A. & KNIGHT, S. M. (1993) Denning irresponsible drinking behaviors: an exploratory study using the viewpoint of five diverse groups, Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 38, 37-48.
6. ELLICKSON, P. L. & BELL, R. M. (1990) Drug prevention in junior high: a multi-site longitudinal test, Science, 247, 1299-1305.
7. ELLICKSON, P. L., BELL, R. M. & McGUIGAN, K. (1993a) Preventing adolescent drug use: long term results of a Junior High program, American Journal of Public Health, 83, 856-861.
8. ELLICKSON, P. L., LARA, M. E., SHERBOURNE, C. D. & ZIMA, B. (1993b) Forgotten Ages, Forgotten Problems: adolescents' health (Santa Monica, CA, RAND, MR-141-RC).
9. FREIER, M. E., BELL, R. M. & ELLICKSON, P. L. (1991) Do Teens Tell the Truth? The Validity of Self-Reported Tobacco Use by Adolescents (Santa Monica, CA, RAND, N-3291-CHF).
10. HANSEN, W. B., MALOTTE, C. K. & FIELDING, J. E. (1988) Evaluation of a tobacco and alcohol abuse prevention curriculum for adolescents, Health Education Quarterly, 15, 93-114.
11. HARFORD, T. C. & MILLS, G. S. (1978) Age-related trends in alcohol consumption, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 39, 207-210.
12. HARFORD, T. & SPIEGLER, D. L. (1983) Developmental trends of adolescent drinking, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 44, 181-188.
13. HAYS, R. D. & ELLICKSON, P. L. (1996) What is adolescent alcohol misuse in the United States according to the experts? Alcohol and Alcoholism, 31, 297-303.
14. HOLLAND, B. S. & COPENHAUER, M. D. (1987) An improved sequentially rejective Bonferroni test procedure, Biometrics, 43, 417-423.
15. HUBER, P. J. (1981) Robust Statistics (New York, Wiley).
16. HUSELID, R. F. & COOPER, L. M. (1992) Gender roles as mediators of sex differences in adolescent alcohol use and abuse, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 33, 348-362.
17. JOHNSON, P., ARMOR, D. J., POUCH, S. & STAMBUL, H. (1977) U.S. Adult Drinking Practices: time trends, social correlates and sex roles (Santa Monica, CA, RAND, WN-9923-NIAA).
18. JOHNSON, C. A., PENTZ, M. A., WEBER, M. D. et al. (1990) Relative effectiveness of comprehensive community programming for drug abuse prevention with high-risk and low-risk adolescents, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 5, 1-10.
19. JOHNSTON, L. D., O'MALLEY, P. M. & BACHMAN, J. G. (1993b) National Survey Results on Drug Use From the Monitoring the Future Study, 1975-1992 (Rockville, MD, National Institute on Drug Abuse).
20. JOHNSTON, L. D., O'MALLEY, P. M. & BACHMAN, J. G. (1993a) Period, age, and cohort effects on substance use among American youth, 1976-82, American Journal of Public Health, 74, 682-688.
21. KANN, L., WARREN, W., COLLINS, J. L. & ROSS, J. (1993) Results from the national school-based 1991 youth risk behavior survey and progress toward achieving related health objectives for the nation, Public Health Reports, 108, Suppl. 1, 47-55.
22. KILTY, K. (1990) Drinking styles of adolescents and young adults, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 51, 556-564.
23. LITTLE, R. J. A. & RUBIN, D. B. (1987) Statistical Analysis with Missing Data (New York, Wiley).
24. MOSKOWITZ, J. M. (1989) The primary prevention of alcohol problems: a critical review of the research literature, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 50, 54-88.
25. NEWCOMB, M. D. & BENTLER, P. M. (1989) Substance use and abuse among children and teenagers, American Psychologist, 44, 242-248.
26. OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY (ONDCP) (1989) National Drug Control Strategy (Washington, DC, United States Government Printing Office).
27. O'MALLEY, P. M. & WAGENAAR, A. C. (1991) Effects of minimum drinking age laws on alcohol use, related behaviors and traffic crash involvement among American youth: 1976-1987, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 52, 478-491.
28. PHELPS, C. E. (1988) Death and taxes: an opportunity for substitution, Journal of Health Economics, 7, 1-24.
29. PIRIE, P. L., MURRAY, D. & LUEPKER, R. (1988) Smoking prevalence in a cohort of adolescents, ineluding absentees, dropouts, and transfers, American Journal of Public Health, 78, 176-178.
30. RAYMOND, M. R. (1986) Missing data in evaluation research, Evaluation and the Health Professions, 9, 395-420.
31. REINISCH, E. J., BELL, R. M. & ELLICKSON, P. L. (1991) How Accurate are Adolescent Reports of Drug Use? (Santa Monica, CA, RAND, N-3189-CHF).
32. RICE, D. P. (1993) The economic cost of alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence, Alcohol Health & Research World, 17, 10-11.
33. RUTTER, M. (1985) Resilience in the face of adversity: protective factors and resistance to psychiatric disorder, British Journal of Psychiatry, 147, 598-611.
34. SHOPE, J. T., COPELAND, L. A. & DIELMAN, T. E. (1994) Measurement of alcohol use and misuse in a cohort of students followed from grade 6 through grade 12, Alcoholism, 18, 726-733.
35. SMART, R. G., ALLISON, K. R., CHEUNG, Y., ERICKSON, P. G., SHAIN, M. & SINGLE, E. (1990) Future research needs in policy, prevention, and treatment for drug abuse problems, International Journal of Addiction, 25, 117-126.
36. STRICKER, L. J. (1988) Measuring social status with occupational information: a simple method, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 18, 423-437.
37. STRUNIN, L. & HINGSON, R. (1992) Alcohol, drugs, and adolescent sexual behavior, International Journal of Addiction, 27, 129-146.
38. TREND, A. J., PARKER, R. N. & HOLDER, H. D. (1993) Understanding U.S. alcohol consumption with social and economic factors: a multivariate time series analysis, 1950-1986, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 54, 146-156.
39. US DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (USDHHS) (1991) National Household Survey On Drug Abuse: main findings 1990 (Rockville, MD, National Institute on Drug Abuse/Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research, (ADM) 91-1788).
40. US DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND NATIONAI. HIGHWAY SAFETY ADMINISTRATION (1989) Fatal Accident Reporting System 1988: a review of information on fatal traffic crashes in the United States in 1988 (Washington, DC, US DOT).
41. WEBER, M. D., GRAHAM, J. W., HANSEN, W. B., FLAY, B. R. & JOHNSON (1988) Evidence for two paths of alcohol use onset in adolescents, Addictive Behaviors, 14, 399-408.
42. WELTE, J. W. & BARNES, G. M. (1987) Towards the assessment of adolescent problem drinking, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 48, 329-336.
43. WERNER, E. E. & SMITH (1982) Vulnerable But Invincible: a longitudinal study of resilient children and youth (New York, NY, McGraw-Hill).
44. WHITE, H. R. & LABOUVIE, E. W. (1989) Towards the assessment of adolescent problem drinking, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 50, 30-37.
45. WINDLE, M. (1994) Substance use, risky behaviors, and victimization among a U.S. national adolescent sample, Addiction, 89, 175-182.