Decline in age of drinking onset in Ireland, gender and per capita alcohol consumption.

Authors
Smyth, Bobby P
Kelly, Alan
Cox, Gemma
Affiliation
Department of Public Health & Primary Care, Trinity College Dublin, Addiction Service, Bridge House, Cherry Orchard Hospital, Dublin 10, Ireland. smythbo@tcd.ie
Issue Date
2011
MeSH
Adolescent
Adult
Age of Onset
Alcohol Drinking
Cohort Studies
Data Collection
Databases, Factual
Female
Humans
Ireland

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Citation
Decline in age of drinking onset in Ireland, gender and per capita alcohol consumption., 46 (4):478-84 Alcohol Alcohol.
Journal
Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire)
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10147/220739
DOI
10.1093/alcalc/agr047
PubMed ID
21576346
Abstract
We sought to examine the fall in age of first drinking in Ireland and to determine whether there were gender differences. We also aimed to determine whether there was a relationship between the per capita alcohol consumption evident when people entered later adolescence and their age of drinking onset.
Item Type
Article
Language
en
ISSN
1464-3502
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