Social network characteristics and alcohol use among young Swedes with different ethnic backgrounds

Alcohol use among Swedes and a psychometric evaluation of the alcohol use disorders identification test.

The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) was completed by 997 persons randomly selected from the general Swedish population (80% response rate). Eighteen per cent of the men and 5% of the women had hazardous or harmful alcohol use according to the > or =8 score criterion. AUDIT scores decreased with increasing age in both genders. Women are more sensitive to alcohol than men and wh...

Alcohol use among adolescents and young adults.

National surveys of adolescents, college students, and other young adults in the United States reveal high rates of alcohol use among these age groups as well as high rates of dangerous drinking practices such as binge drinking and daily drinking. Additional health-compromising behaviors such as tobacco use and drinking and driving often co-occur with alcohol use in these populations. The physi...

Drug and alcohol use among young people

Alcohol Use and Violence Among Young Adults

KENNETH E. LEONARD, PH.D., is research professor of psychiatry, University at Buffalo, School of Medicine, and senior research scientist at the Research Institute on Addictions, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York. age gr Approximately 40 percent of people experiencing violence are young adults ages 18 to 30; this translates into a greater risk for violence in...

Social and behavioral characteristics of young adult drink/drivers adjusted for level of alcohol use.

BACKGROUND Alcohol consumption and drink/driving are positively correlated and many predictors of alcohol use also predict drink/driving. Past research has not fully distinguished the contributions of personal risk factors from the level of alcohol use in the prediction of drink/driving. As a result, the extent to which predictors are specific to drink/driving, versus due to a mutual associatio...