Many young people have access to alcohol, guns

Author:
Publication: Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly
Topics: Age Group Alcohol Public Health
Keywords: Alcohol Children Risk Factors guns
Bibliographic information +

This editorial refers to an article published in 2002 in Injury Prevention on risk factors of increased access to alcohol and guns. The study found that both alcohol and guns were most commonly accessible to white children living with both parents in the home, whose families were not on welfare and whose mothers were high school graduates.