Citation

Harford TC, Yi H, Freeman RC. J. Child Adolesc. Subst. Abuse 2012; 21(4): 349-366.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/1067828X.2012.710028

PMID

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Abstract

This study examines associations between binge drinking and other substance use and perpetration of violence against self and others. Data were pooled from the 2003, 2005, and 2007 Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, yielding a sample of 43,172 U.S. high school students. A typology was constructed to reflect four categories of behaviors: other-directed violence only, self-directed violence only, combined other- and self-directed violence, and no violence. Results from multinomial logistic regressions show that the frequency of binge drinking and other substance use were significant risk factors for each of the violence categories relative to no violence. However, the strengths of these associations varied across the violence categories.