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Commentary on White and Colleagues: Trends in Alcohol‐Related Emergency Department Visits in the United States: Results from the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample, 2006 to 2014 ( ACER , 2018)
Author(s) -
Patrick Megan E.,
TerryMcElrath Yvonne M.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
alcoholism: clinical and experimental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 153
eISSN - 1530-0277
pISSN - 0145-6008
DOI - 10.1111/acer.13593
Subject(s) - emergency department , library science , medicine , gerontology , psychiatry , computer science
Epidemiological research has documented a puzzling disconnect between recent alcohol-related trends in the United States. Studies comparing year-to-year prevalence of alcohol use and binge drinking have shown that drinking has been decreasing among adolescents and young adults (Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, 2015; Miech et al., 2017; Schulenberg et al., 2017). This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.