Citation

Cherpitel CJ, Tam T, Midanik L, Caetano R, Greenfield T. Accid. Anal. Prev. 1995; 27(5): 651-661.

Affiliation

Alcohol Research Group, Western Consortium for Public Health, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8579696

Abstract

This paper reports a risk function analysis of average daily volume of alcohol consumed and the frequency of consuming 5 or more drinks during a single day with reporting an injury in a probability sample of the U.S. adult household population living in the 48 contiguous states. The data are from the 1990 National Alcohol Survey on a weighted sample of 1,150 respondents, 748 of whom were current drinkers. Risk of injury was found to increase with an average daily volume of 1 drink for both males and females and for those 30 and younger and those over 30, and to increase with a frequency of consuming 5 or more drinks on one day more often than twice a year. These data suggest that risk for injury may be increased at relatively low levels of consumption and, if so, that preventive efforts aimed at more moderate drinkers may have a greater impact on the reduction of alcohol-related accidents than efforts focused on heavier drinkers who are fewer in number.