TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1997//
TI  - Drinking location and risk of alcohol-impaired driving among high school seniors
JO  - Addictive behaviors
A1  - Wagenaar, Alexander C.
A1  - Short, B. J.
A1  - Jones-Webb, Rhonda J.
A1  - Lee, J. A.
SP  - 387
EP  - 393
VL  - 22
IS  - 3
N2  - This study investigated environmental predictors of teenagers' alcohol-impaired driving, such as drinking location and alcohol source. Data for this study were part of the 15 Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol Project. Relationships between drinking-driver status, alcohol source, drinking location, alcohol consumption, and individual demographics were determined for the full sample as well as for males and females separately, using mixed-model, logistic regression. Analyses were restricted to high school seniors who were drivers and who consumed alcohol within the last 30 days (N = 1,914). For males and females, the risk of alcohol-impaired driving rose significantly with increases in both the number of binge-drinking events and estimates of the number of drinks required to impair their driving. Drinking location was important in that students who drank outdoors or in a moving car or truck were at significant risk for drinking-driving. Drinking-driving risks specific to females were number of drinking occasions and drinking at someone else's house. Strategies to prevent drinking-driving among teenagers need to consider drinking patterns as well as drinking locations for both males and females.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0306-4603
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -