Alcohol purchase age laws and the serial beginning drinker in New York.
Raising the drinking age twice in New York State in the 1980s might have created a generation of "serial beginning drinkers." Findings indicate that when young adults become beginning drinkers, their chances of drinking-driving increase; when they become serial beginning drinkers, their involvement in drinking-driving remains high over time. The beginning drinkers belong to a special historical period and are only composed of birth cohorts of 3 or 4 years (mainly early 1960s). The effect of the serial beginning drinker should fade out as those birth cohorts grow into maturity.
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New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, Albany 12203, USA.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D015331:Cohort Studies; D006801:Humans; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D008875:Middle Aged; D009518:New York; D014481:United States