Teen drunkenness levels converge across cultures, by gender

Monday, October 4, 2010 - 16:00 in Health & Medicine

In the past decade, cultural and gender-based differences in the frequency of drunkenness among adolescents have declined, as drunkenness has become more common in Eastern Europe and among girls and less common in Western countries and among boys, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the February 2011 print issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

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