Drinking beyond the binge threshold in a clinical sample of adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Nearly all the research conducted on high-intensity drinking has focused on college and school-based samples, with recent calls for research to understand this risky drinking pattern in non-school-based samples and across time. This study aimed to characterize predictors and consequences of non-binge drinking, age- and gender-adjusted binge drinking (level I) and drinking at levels representing two or more times (level II) and three or more times the level I binge threshold (level III) in a clinical sample of adolescents followed into young adulthood.

Design

Cross-sectional associations between non-binge drinking, binge levels, and negative alcohol-related consequences were examined during adolescence; prospective analyses tested whether adolescent non-bi

SUBMITTER: Creswell KG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8071609 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature