are no gender differences in our model's prediction of age of first drink (similar to Miech, Johnston, O'Malley, Bachman, & Schulenberg, 2016), this may be limited by our use of this covariate as a binary variable; our sample size is too small to explore this in more detail by modeling males and females independently across race. Fifth, though the predictors in Model 5 have been identified as also having predictive ability for later alcohol-use problems, the question of “how early age of first drink” actually predicts early adulthood AD has not been determined (Kuntsche, Rossow, Engels, & Kuntsche, 2016).
