Parent-based interventions on adolescent alcohol use outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Adolescent alcohol use is prevalent and has serious consequences. Globally, 34.1% of 15- to 19-year-old adolescents are current drinkers with 11.7% of adolescents being binge drinkers (World Health Organization, WHO, 2014). In the United States, 63.2% of high school students reported ever using alcohol, and 17.2% of high school students have drunk alcohol before 13 years old (Kann et al., 2016). Excessive alcohol use is associated with a broad array of health risk behaviors (e.g., smoking cigarettes, using illicit drugs, risky sexual behaviors, drunk driving, and attempting suicide) and causes over 4,300 deaths each year among youth under 21 years old in the United States (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, 2013; Miller et al., 2007).
Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - Category: Addiction Authors: Source Type: research