How many drinks does it take you to feel drunk? Trends and predictors for subjective drunkenness

Addiction

Volumn 101, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1428-1437

  Kerr, William C ^a   Greenfield, Thomas K ^a   Midanik, Lorraine T ^a,b  

^a ALCOHOL RESEARCH GROUP   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol use; Drunk driving; Drunkenness; Quantile regression; Trends

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGING; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BEVERAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUNKEN DRIVING; DRUNKENNESS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; WINE;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748362413     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01533.x     Document Type: Article

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