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AAP Grand Rounds 2:6 (1999)
© 1999 American Academy of Pediatrics

High School Seniors’ Drinking and Driving

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Since 1975, the "Monitoring the Future Project" has annually surveyed a nationally representative sample of about 17,000 high school seniors in order to provide data on various trends. This paper reports trends from 1984 to 1997 related to driving after drinking alcohol and riding in a car with a driver who has been drinking alcohol. Confidential self-completed questionnaires were analyzed to assess changes over time and the relationship of drinking behaviors to demographic and lifestyle factors.

In 1984, 69.6% of high school seniors reported having ingested alcohol in the previous 30 days; that figure declined to a low 50.3% . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Sheryl A. Ryan, MD, FAAP

Pediatrics, Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY