@article{ref1,
title="Peril, chance, adventure: Concepts of risk, alcohol use and risky behavior in young adults",
journal="Addiction",
year="1999",
author="Leigh, B. C.",
volume="94",
number="3",
pages="371-383",
abstract="This paper discusses issues in applying concepts of &quot;risk&quot; to alcohol use. There is a wide variety of definitions of &quot;risk,&quot; including dimensions of positive vs. negative aspects of risk-taking, short-term vs. long-term harm, generality vs. specificity of risk behaviors, knowledge of probability of harm, and objective vs. subjective risk. Alcohol can play a role in risky behavior on multiple levels. The paper describes the methods used to examine a link between alcohol and risk-taking (population-based, person-based, event-based and experimental methods) and illustrates these methods from research findings on the association of alcohol to risky driving, crime and violent behavior, and sexual risk-taking. Theoretical models of the association of alcohol and risk-taking are outlined, and the implications of these models for alcohol policy and prevention are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0965-2140",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}