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Magnitude of alcohol-related mortality and morbidity among U.S. college students ages 18-24Ralph W Hingson
Social and Behavioral Sciences Department, Boston University School of Public Health, Massachusetts 02118, USA
J Stud Alcohol 63:136-44. 2002..This report estimates the numbers of 18-24 year old United States college students who annually experience alcohol-related deaths, injuries and other health problems...- Age of drinking onset, driving after drinking, and involvement in alcohol related motor-vehicle crashesRalph Hingson
Boston University School of Public Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences Department TW2, MA 02128, USA
Accid Anal Prev 34:85-92. 2002..The traffic safety benefits of delaying drinking may extend well beyond the legal drinking age of 21... - Age of drinking onset and involvement in physical fights after drinkingR Hingson
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 108:872-7. 2001..To explore whether people who start drinking at an early age are more likely to have been in physical fights after drinking, independent of respondent history of alcohol dependence and frequency of heavy drinking... - Early age of first drunkenness as a factor in college students' unplanned and unprotected sex attributable to drinkingRalph Hingson
Boston University School of Public Health Social and Behavioral Sciences Department, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Pediatrics 111:34-41. 2003..This study explores whether first getting drunk at a younger age is associated with a greater likelihood of college students reporting that they had unplanned or unprotected sexual intercourse because of their drinking... - Age of drinking onset and unintentional injury involvement after drinkingR W Hingson
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, MA 02118, USA
JAMA 284:1527-33. 2000..Onset of drinking at an early age has been found to be associated with alcohol dependence, but whether early-onset drinking increases risk for unintentional injury while drinking is unknown... 
Effects of recent 0.08% legal blood alcohol limits on fatal crash involvementR Hingson
Boston University School of Public Health Social and Behavioral Sciences Department, MA 02118, USA
Inj Prev 6:109-14. 2000..This study assessed whether states that lowered legal blood alcohol limits from 0.10% to 0.08% in 1993 and 1994 experienced post-law reductions in alcohol related fatal crashes...- Effects of Maine's 0.05% legal blood alcohol level for drivers with DWI convictionsR Hingson
Boston University School of Public Health, MA 02118, USA
Public Health Rep 113:440-6. 1998..To determine whether a Maine law lowering the legal blood alcohol limit (BAL) from 0.10% to 0.05% for people convicted of driving while intoxicated (DWI) reduced the involvement of this group in fatal crashes... - Age of first intoxication, heavy drinking, driving after drinking and risk of unintentional injury among U.S. college studentsRalph Hingson
Social and Behavioral Sciences Department, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany Street, T2W, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
J Stud Alcohol 64:23-31. 2003..It also investigated whether these results occur because these students believe they can drink more and still drive legally and safely... - Underage drinking: frequency, consequences, and interventionsRalph W Hingson
Boston University School of Public Health, Center to Prevent Alcohol Problems Among Young People, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 5:228-36. 2004..To examine the frequency of underage drinking, driving after drinking and alcohol-related crashes, trends in these behaviors, and promising interventions... - Magnitude of alcohol-related mortality and morbidity among U.S. college students ages 18-24: changes from 1998 to 2001Ralph Hingson
Boston University School of Public Health, Center to Prevent Alcohol Problems Among Young People, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 26:259-79. 2005.... 
Alcohol-related problems among younger drinkers who misuse prescription drugs: results from the national epidemiologic survey of alcohol and related conditions (NESARC)J Hermos
Youth Alcohol Prevention Center and Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Subst Abus 30:118-26. 2009....- Where children sit in cars: the impact of Rhode Island's new legislationM Segui-Gomez
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass, USA
Am J Public Health 91:311-3. 2001..This study evaluated the impact of Rhode Island's legislation requiring children younger than 6 years to sit in the rear of motor vehicles... - Trillion virion delay: time from testing positive for HIV to presentation for primary careJ H Samet
Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Public Health, Mass, USA
Arch Intern Med 158:734-40. 1998..Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals' initial presentation to medical care frequently occurs at a point of advanced immunosuppression... - HIV and hepatitis B infection and risk behavior in young gay and bisexual menG R Seage
Boston Department of Health and Hospitals, USA
Public Health Rep 112:158-67. 1997..To estimate the prevalence of and identify risk factors for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections and unprotected anal intercourse among young homosexual and bisexual men... - Strategies to reduce driving under the influence of alcoholW DeJong
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 19:359-78. 1998..In the next several years, greater efforts are needed on all these fronts. Also needed, however, are programs that integrate drunk driving prevention with other traffic safety initiatives... - Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome transmission: changes in knowledge and behaviors among teenagers, Massachusetts statewide surveys, 1986 to 1988R Hingson
Boston University School of Public Health, MA 02118
Pediatrics 85:24-9. 1990..Teenagers who had spoken to physicians about AIDS were much more likely to have adopted condom use to avoid HIV exposure. However, although 80% of adolescents saw a physician in the past year, only 13% were counseled about AIDS... - Effects on alcohol related fatal crashes of a community based initiative to increase substance abuse treatment and reduce alcohol availabilityR W Hingson
Boston University School of Public Health, Center to Prevent Alcohol related Problems Among Young People, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Inj Prev 11:84-90. 2005..This analysis tested whether comprehensive community interventions that focus on reducing alcohol availability and increasing substance abuse treatment can reduce alcohol related fatal traffic crashes... - Adverse childhood experiences predict earlier age of drinking onset: results from a representative US sample of current or former drinkersEmily F Rothman
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Pediatrics 122:e298-304. 2008..Our goal was to determine whether adverse childhood experiences predicted the age at which drinking was initiated and drinking motives in a representative sample of current or former drinkers in the United States... - Age at drinking onset, alcohol dependence, and their relation to drug use and dependence, driving under the influence of drugs, and motor-vehicle crash involvement because of drugsRalph W Hingson
Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 5635 Fishers Lane, Room 2077, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 9304, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 69:192-201. 2008..We also examined among drinkers who have used drugs whether they also predict driving under the influence of drugs and motor-vehicle crash involvement because of drugs... - A comparison of results from an alcohol survey of a prerecruited Internet panel and the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related ConditionsTimothy Heeren
Youth Alcohol Prevention Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 32:222-9. 2008.... - Age of alcohol-dependence onset: associations with severity of dependence and seeking treatmentRalph W Hingson
Youth Alcohol Prevention Center, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany St, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Pediatrics 118:e755-63. 2006..We explored whether people who become alcohol dependent at younger ages are more likely to seek alcohol-related help or treatment or experience chronic relapsing dependence... - Age at drinking onset and alcohol dependence: age at onset, duration, and severityRalph W Hingson
Youth Alcohol Prevention Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Mass 02118, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 160:739-46. 2006.... - Injury among detoxification patients: alcohol users' greater riskVaughan W Rees
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University Schools of Medicine, Massachusetts, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 26:212-7. 2002..Patients at detoxification, particularly those with alcohol problems, represent a high-risk population for injury that may benefit from interventions to reduce these preventable complications...