Project

SSDP – Understanding Alcohol Misuse, Abuse and Dependence in Young Adulthood

Start Dates: 2008

PI(s): Karl G. Hill

Project Director: Jennifer Bailey

Funding: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Project Description

This study examines the occurrence and course of binge drinking, alcohol abuse, and alcohol dependence in young adulthood (ages 21 to 30) in the Seattle Social Development Project panel. The study seeks to understand the relationship between childhood and adolescent patterns of alcohol use and young adult binge drinking, alcohol abuse, and alcohol dependence through age 33, and the role of social-developmental factors in influencing these patterns. The study will provide information of use to those designing preventive and treatment interventions for alcohol misuse, alcohol abuse, and alcohol dependence. Co-investigators include Jennifer Bailey, David Hawkins and Richard Catalano, and they are joined by Jennifer Maggs of Penn State University.