Re-thinking pre-drinking: Implications from a sample of teenagers who drink in private settings

Pre-drinking (also known as pre-loading or pre-gaming) is a widespread, important and ritualised aspect of the collective drinking practices of contemporary night-time economy (NTE) populations, particularly young people (LaBrie, Hummer, Pedersen, Lac,& Chithambo, 2012; Miller et al., 2013; Zamboanga et al., 2011). With many young people organising their nights out according to a ‘home-pub-club’ model (Barton& Husk, 2014), research on pre-drinking has primarily focussed on the extent to which it shapes, or exacerbates, ‘risky’ drinking patterns and related harms in licensed entertainment precincts (Labhart, Graham, Wells,& Kuntsche, 2013; Zamboanga et al., 2011).

Source: International Journal of Drug Policy - December 8, 2017 Category: Addiction Authors: James Wilson, Rowan P. Ogeil, Tina Lam, Simon Lenton, Belinda Lloyd, Lucy Burns, Alexandra Aiken, William Gilmore, Tanya Chikritzhs, Richard Mattick, Dan I. Lubman, Steve Allsop Tags: Short Report Source Type: research