Age of Drinking Onset and Unintentional Injury Involvement after Drinking (Report)

This report provides the results of a study analyzing whether individuals who begin alcohol use at younger ages report a higher rate of unintentional injuries while under the influence of alcohol.  Injury data from a 1992 study conducted by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) was analyzed to determine whether the unintentional injury rate for those people who began alcohol use before age 14 was higher than the rate for those who started drinking alcohol at age 21 or older. Black and white, 8.5" x 11", 20 pages.