TABLE 4. Possible Mechanisms Producing Associations Between Alcohol Use and Outcomes¹⁰⁸.

Temporal Features	Alcohol Use Produces Outcome	Putative Outcome Produces Alcohol Use	Other Factor Produces Alcohol Use and Outcome
Acute/situational	Acute intoxication leads to DWI	Failure on a test leads to a drinking binge	Being at a party at a friend’s known for fighting and drinking means one is more likely to drink and to be assaulted while drinking
Chronic/dispositional	Long-term pattern of consumption leads to depression resulting from neuroadaptational changes	Social marginalization leads to reduced social controls and increased drinking	Conduct disorder leads to both repeated binge drinking and high-risk sexual encounters