Citation

Yu J. Int. J. Addict. 1995; 30(10): 1289-1301.

Affiliation

New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, Albany 12203, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, Marcel Dekker)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7591344

Abstract

Raising the drinking age twice in New York State in the 1980s might have created a generation of "serial beginning drinkers." Findings indicate that when young adults become beginning drinkers, their chances of drinking-driving increase; when they become serial beginning drinkers, their involvement in drinking-driving remains high over time. The beginning drinkers belong to a special historical period and are only composed of birth cohorts of 3 or 4 years (mainly early 1960s). The effect of the serial beginning drinker should fade out as those birth cohorts grow into maturity.

Language: en