ADVISORY/Experts Available to Comment on Teen-Drinking Survey Flaws.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 2002 TOPIC: Reanalysis supports yesterday's claim by the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States that numbers in a report on teen alcohol use by a national substance abuse center were inflated. MSNBC reports that yesterday's numbers from the Columbia University National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse's analysis of teen drinking were inflated to more than twice the correct number due to faulty calculations and over sampling. The center acknowledged late yesterday that it had not made a necessary adjustment when analyzing data from the 1998 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, MSNBC says. When adjustments are made, the center's claim that underage drinkers now account for 25 percent of the alcohol consumed in this country drops to 11.4 percent, the story reports. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Prof. Kelly Kel·ly , Ellsworth Born 1923. American abstract painter and sculptor whose works are characterized by flat color areas with sharply defined edges. Kelly, Emmett 1898-1979. Kilcrease teaches productivity studies at Franklin Pierce College In 2006 the Library won a national Excellence award. Academics Pierce College offers associate's degrees, mainly in the arts and sciences. There are also certificate programs in early childhood education, social services, dental hygienist, and others. in NH. Her expertise includes marketing, survey design and data collection. 603/899-4163 Prof. Norbert Schwarz is a psychologist psy·chol·o·gist n. A person trained and educated to perform psychological research, testing, and therapy. psychologist at the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. whose expertise includes survey methodology and the validity of behavior reports. 734/647-3616 Dr. Rob Turrisi is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho “Boise” redirects here. For other uses, see Boise (disambiguation). Boise is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho. It is the county seat of Ada County and the principal city of the Boise metropolitan area. . Dr. Turrisi has also conducted parent-based interventions to prevent adolescent ad·o·les·cent adj. Of, relating to, or undergoing adolescence. n. A young person who has undergone puberty but who has not reached full maturity; a teenager. drinking, unintended pregnancies, drunk driving, binge drinking binge drinking An early phase of chronic alcoholism, characterized by episodic 'flirtation' with the bottle by binges of drinking to the point of stupor, followed by periods of abstinence; BD is accompanied by alcoholic ketoacidosis–accelerated lipolysis and , and skin cancer risk. 208/426-1901. Julie Halpin is the Chief Executive Officer of The Geppetto Group, a firm that specializes in marketing to kids and teens with focus on consulting, advertising and new product development. 212/462-8140; jhalpin@geppettogroup.com ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. ExpertSource, a collaboration Working together on a project. See collaborative software. of Business Wire and The Round Table Group, provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at http://www.businesswire.com/expertsource. Business Wire's Media Resource Center provides working journalists many free media services. Please visit the BW Media Resource Center at (www.businesswire.com/media) for more information. |
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