Owning alcohol-branded merchandise associated with teen drinking behaviors

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - 17:56 in Health & Medicine

A Dartmouth-led study of young U.S. teens showed that between 11 and 20 percent own T-shirts or other items featuring an alcohol brand, and those who do appear more likely to transition through the stages of drinking from susceptibility, to beginning drinking, to binge drinking, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

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