Alcohol and School Violence

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This paper examines how, when studying violence by students in the school system, researchers recognize that the trait of aggression normally shares other similar characteristics as well, such as low self-esteem and violence in the home. In particular, it looks at how school violence is more likely to be perpetuated by youth who started drinking alcohol early in their lives.

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"Early experimenters were also more likely to engage in problem behaviors compared with nondrinkers, but less apt to be involved with such actions than early drinkers. Compared to experimenters, drinkers at age 7 were 20.5 times more likely to engage in weekly marijuana use, 8 times more involved with hard drug use; 5 times more prone toward weekly smoking; 2 times more apt to steal; and 1.5 to 2 times more inclined to be frequently absent, have poor grades and exhibit behavioral problems in the classroom. Older adolescents continue this negative behavior with early drinkers more apt to have problems than nondrinkers."

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