Richard Saitz1, Timothy C Heeren2, Wenxing Zha3, Ralph Hingson3. 1. Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health; Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA. 2. Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA. 3. Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: The objective of this research was to study transitions to and from at-risk alcohol use. METHODS: Logistic regression analyses (done 2015-2016) assessed transitions to and from past-year at-risk drinking in a representative sample of U.S. adults surveyed twice (in 2001-2 and 2004-5). RESULTS: Among 34,653 adults, 28% reported at-risk use at time 1. Of those, 73% had at-risk use at time 2. Of those without at-risk use at time 1, 15% reported at-risk use at time 2. Positive high-risk drinking transition predictors were, at time 1, being young, male, white, childless, in good to excellent health, ever smoking, using drugs, military membership (time 1 but not 2), and becoming divorced or separated by time 2. Positive low-risk drinking transition predictors were being elderly (age ≥65), female, non-white, never smoking or using drugs, no alcohol use disorder, alcohol treatment, and, after time 1, having children. CONCLUSIONS: Many adults transition to and from at-risk alcohol use; youth is the strongest positive predictor of transition to at-risk and not transitioning to low-risk drinking. Persons transitioning to legal drinking age are most likely to transition to high-risk and least likely to low-risk drinking.
INTRODUCTION: The objective of this research was to study transitions to and from at-risk alcohol use. METHODS: Logistic regression analyses (done 2015-2016) assessed transitions to and from past-year at-risk drinking in a representative sample of U.S. adults surveyed twice (in 2001-2 and 2004-5). RESULTS: Among 34,653 adults, 28% reported at-risk use at time 1. Of those, 73% had at-risk use at time 2. Of those without at-risk use at time 1, 15% reported at-risk use at time 2. Positive high-risk drinking transition predictors were, at time 1, being young, male, white, childless, in good to excellent health, ever smoking, using drugs, military membership (time 1 but not 2), and becoming divorced or separated by time 2. Positive low-risk drinking transition predictors were being elderly (age ≥65), female, non-white, never smoking or using drugs, no alcohol use disorder, alcohol treatment, and, after time 1, having children. CONCLUSIONS: Many adults transition to and from at-risk alcohol use; youth is the strongest positive predictor of transition to at-risk and not transitioning to low-risk drinking. Persons transitioning to legal drinking age are most likely to transition to high-risk and least likely to low-risk drinking.
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