Posted on 06/20/2017 12:13:13 PM PDT by simpson96
Do you remember the age you were when you first got drunk? According to a new study, your life might depend on it.
Researchers found that individuals who first became intoxicated prior to the age of 15 may be at greater risk of early death, compared with those who did not get drunk in adolescence, or those who first got drunk later in their teens.
The findings were recently published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence.(snip)
For the new study, lead author Hui Hu, Ph.D., of the College of Public Health at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and colleagues sought to determine how early-onset drunkenness affects mortality risk.
Early death risk increased by 47 percent
Dr. Hu and team analyzed the data from the 1981-1983 National Institute of Mental Health Epidemiologic Catchment Area Survey, identifying 14,848 adults who had been interviewed about their alcohol consumption, including the occurrence of any drunken episodes and the presence of alcohol use disorders.
The researchers then linked these data with information from the National Death Index that was recorded up until 2007, in order to determine which of the participants had passed away.(snip)
Compared with participants who first got drunk at the age of 15 or later, those whose first drunken episode occurred before the age of 15 were found to have a 23 percent greater risk of early death.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalnewstoday.com ...
No kidding.
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this is a red letter example of the problems with causal density. if you got drunk in your early teens, you are almost certainly participating in so many other high risk behaviors that it’s sort of amazing that you ever got out of your early teens.
I would suspect single parent households to be at the root of all of this.
Well, yeah. Start off drinking in your early teens - you might not make it to your late teens.
Paging Captain Obvious.
It has not yet arrived. And since I'm past 50, I doubt it will.
Duh... and pregnancy risk!!!
Single parent households are the root cause of most societal evils. Yet our government rewards and encourages this anti-social behavior.
I was a HS student and went to visit my brother at the SAE house at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His fellow brothers thought it would be funny to get me, an obvious neophyte, drunk, and it was a good time. But I was 17 (the legal age then was 18) and I was not driving, and no mayhem resulted. So, according to this, I’m OK.
By age 25 teen age birthrates decline measurably
“Do you remember the age you were when you first got drunk?”
18.
Is this because the individual is more prone to risky behavior, or do they suffer early death from "natural causes"?
If you get drunk at 12...or even 15...and there’s a distinct possibility you’re on your way to becoming an alcoholic.If that occurs you’re at greater risk of death from everything from liver failure,to gastrointestinal bleeding,to car accidents,to murder,to suicide.
No, I was blacked out at the time
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Post hoc ergo propter hoc
“Yet our government rewards and encourages this anti-social behavior.”
and a lot of churches are pretty quiet about it too.
And it's how you get your first kid before even starting Algebra I.
“and no mayhem resulted.”
What would you do if a son (about the right age) showed up at your front door tonight?
That would have been a good practical joke for your brother to have pulled on you.
>>Compared with participants who first got drunk at the age of 15 or later, those whose first drunken episode occurred before the age of 15 were found to have a 23 percent greater risk of early death.<<
Ridiculous assumption.
A drunken episode at an early suggests poor parenting, youthful indiscretion, mental disorders, trauma, abuse/neglect and a thousand other reasons why that child had reached that point in their early lives.
These factors are equally important when considering longevity (or lack thereof) considering the unknown factors before the first drink - these unknown events may have triggered destructive behaviors that would lead to an early demise more than anything else.
Perhaps alcohol was a symptom of, rather than a cause, of these types of behaviors which led to a biased study with skewed results?
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