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Aims
To estimate longitudinal pathways from childhood socio‐economic position (SEP) to educational attainment and mid‐life heavy drinking in black Americans in order to identify potential points of early intervention to reduce risk for alcohol‐related problems in adulthood.
Design, Setting and Participants
Data are from 1299 black Americans in the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, followed...
We use a “chain of risks” model to identify risk factors for prolonged heavy drinking in a nationally representative US sample followed from adolescence to middle age, focusing on educational mediators and differential consequences of early exposure to family poverty and area-level disadvantage. Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (civilian respondents ages 14–19 at baseline,...
Even given equivalent drinking patterns, Black and Latino men experience substantially more dependence symptoms and other consequences than White men, particularly at low/no heavy drinking. No known studies have identified factors driving these disparities. The current study examines this question.The 2005 and 2010 National Alcohol Surveys were pooled. Surveys are nationally representative, telephone...
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