BACKGROUND: @entity2749 ( @entity2749 ) has been associated with increased risk for short- and long-term injury and harms, such as violence and delinquent behaviour; however, the temporal relationship between the two remains unclear, particularly on transition to young adulthood. This study investigates transactional pathways between @entity2749 and delinquent behaviour from adolescence to emerging adulthood. METHODS: Data were drawn from the Australian Temperament Project; a population-based longitudinal study that has followed the health and development of @entity1 (and parents) across 30 years from birth in 1982. The analytic sample was 1650 @entity1 and included five measurement waves spanning adolescence (3 waves: 13-18 years) and young adulthood (2 waves; 19-24 years). RESULTS: There was strong continuity across waves of both @entity2749 and delinquency, as well as across-time associations between them. Delinquent behaviour in adolescence was associated with up to twofold increases in the odds of @entity2749 at each subsequent adolescent wave. @entity2749 in the late teens was associated with over fourfold increases in the odds of persistent (two waves) @entity2749 in young adulthood. @entity2749 in the late teens was associated with increases in the odds of delinquent behaviour in young adulthood (over twofold for male and one and a half-fold for female @entity1 ). CONCLUSIONS: While delinquent behaviour predicts both future @entity2749 and future delinquent behaviour in adolescence, once young @entity1 reach the legal drinking age of 18 years, @entity2749 becomes a predictor of current and future delinquent behaviour and future @entity2749 , suggesting that increased access to @entity285 increases the likelihood of young @entity1 engaging in delinquent behaviour. [Miller PG, Butler E, Richardson B, Staiger PK, Youssef GJ, Macdonald JA, Sanson A, Edwards B, Olsson CA. Relationships between problematic @entity285 consumption and delinquent behaviour from adolescence to young adulthood. Drug @entity285 Rev 2016;35:317-325].

Relationships between problematic XXXX consumption and delinquent behaviour from adolescence to young adulthood.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['participants', 'people'] @entity285 :: ('D000431', 'Chemical') :: ['alcohol', 'Alcohol'] @entity2749 :: ('MESH:C580065', 'Disease') :: ['Heavy episodic drinking', 'HED']
@entity285 :: (D000431,Chemical) :: ['alcohol']
