Figure 2.

Kaplan-Meier survival estimates for the age of first alcohol intoxication by level of childhood depressed mood among youth reporting alcohol use¹. The insert graph provides the smoothed hazard estimates by depressed mood level. Data are from an epidemiologic sample originally recruited at the time of entry into first grade classrooms in 1985-1986 from an urban mid-Atlantic public school system (n=2311).

¹ Log-rank test, χ²=18.21 (df=2), p<0.001.