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Article: High school drinking and its consequences.
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- Adolescence
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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Alcohol use continues to be one of the most significant risk behaviors engaged in by teens, as indicated, for example, by results from the 2001 Monitoring the Future survey (Johnston, O'Malley, & Bachman, 2002). In that survey, 63.5% of tenth graders and 73.3% of twelfth graders reported drinking in the past year, with 39.0% and 49.8%, respectively, reporting alcohol use in the past 30 days. Having been drunk in the past 30 days was reported by 21.9% of tenth graders and 32.7% of twelfth graders. An important issue is whether adolescents' use of alcohol is problematic merely because they are underage, or whether adolescents are, in fact, engaging in problem drinking with ...