New findings reported from H. Pape and co-authors describe advances in behavior

According to recent research from Oslo, Norway, "The consumption of alcohol and the frequency of intoxication among Norwegian youth increased significantly from 1992 to 2002, and we thus asked what, if anything, can be expected to happen to rates of other problem behaviors when heavy drinking becomes more widespread' Do such aggregate level changes in alcohol use imply that individual level associations between drunkenness and behavioral deviance change as well' Method: School-based surveys of 16- to 19-year-old Norwegians that were carried out in 1992 (n = 4,744, response rate 97%) and 2002 ( n = 5,458, response rate 92%). Contrary to rates of drunkenness, the level of theft/pilfering...

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