Are your mates making you drink more?

Embargoed until: Publicly released: 2021-07-08 03:00

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Your mates are making you drink more, according to Aussie and international researchers who surveyed 183 Swiss young adults. Participants were asked to complete hourly surveys from 8pm to midnight from Thursday to Saturday for five weeks, reporting where they were, how much they were drinking and how many friends were present. The team found that hanging around a bigger group of friends was associated with more hourly drinking, and those chillin’ at bars and restaurants were also more likely to drink. While participants generally drank less at home or at a friend’s place, the more people in the house was associated with more drinking, the researchers found.

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conference: Drug and Alcohol Review

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Organisation/s: La Trobe University

Funder: This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, Grant no. 100014_126643, awarded to EK. EMAG was supported by the US National Institute on Drug Abuse (T32 DA007292). None of the funding sources had any further role in the study design, collection, analysis and interpretation of the data, writing of the report or decision to submit the paper for publication.

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