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!!!
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
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
And it's how you get your first kid before even starting Algebra I.
>>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?
Thanks for the info. "Early Teens" you say? I'll be sure to avoid that bar in the future.
First drunk at age 4, myself.
Several years later, when I was 17 I got into the beer that was left over from my dad's company picnic. By the time I had imbibed enough to get me rather loopy the song “Good Morning Starshine” came on the radio. The lyrics made perfect sense. For those of you too young to remember that particular song the chorus went...
Gliddy glub gloopy, nibby nabby noopy la, la, la, lo, lo
Sabba sibby sabba, nooby abba nabba, le, le, lo, lo
Tooby ooby walla, nooby abba naba
Early morning singing song.
I'm now 65, like an occasional beer or two with dinner, a little Johnny Walker Blue after a good steak and kill a bottle of Champagne on New Years Eve.
How old was I?
13, in Paris, on a dinner cruise on the Seine. My parents were in attendance.
It was a five course meal and there was a drink or wine served with every course. IIRC (and I might not) it started out with blackberry juice and vodka.
Needless to say I was feeling no pain when we disembarked the boat, under my own power I might add. Slept til about noon the next day. Was a bit foggy for a while, no headache though.
I’ve made it past fifty. Doing okay so far.
16! Whew!