Background Although important to public policy, there have been no rigorous evidence
syntheses of the long-term consequences of late adolescent drinking. Methods and Findings …

The primary statistical challenge that must be addressed when using cross‐sectional data to
estimate the consequences of consuming addictive substances is the likely endogeneity of …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and
poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable …

We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on
educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time …

This paper examines the effects of alcohol use on high school students' quality of learning.
We estimate fixed-effects models using data from the National Longitudinal Study of …

Background: While there is an extensive literature on the correlates of alcohol use disorders
(AUD; alcohol abuse and dependence), there are relatively few prospective studies of …

This first national estimate suggests that the economic cost of methamphetamine (meth) use
in the United States reached $23.4 billion in 2005. Given the uncertainty in estimating the …

The aim of this study was to investigate the association between alcohol and drug use, and
school-related problems measured by low grade point average (GPA) and high school …

Objective: Using data from the National Child Development Study, an ongoing longitudinal
birth cohort study of British youth born in 1958 (N= 9,107), we investigated the long-term …

Young people, whose brains are still developing, might entail a greater vulnerability to the
effects of alcohol consumption on brain function and development. A committee of experts of …