Chunk #22 — RESULTS — Consistency in Reports of Age at First Drink and Categorization as an Early Initiator

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Reporting bias in the association between age at first alcohol use and heavy episodic drinking.

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At Time 1, mean reported age at first alcohol use was 15.07 (SD=2.18) years; at Time 2, it was 16.01 (SD=2.23). The correlation between Time 1 and Time 2 reports of age at first drink was 0.65 (p<0.0001).