ObjectiveDrinking motives predict later levels of alcohol consumption and development of alcohol dependence, but their effects on stress-related drinking are less clear. Proximity to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center (WTC) on 09/11/01 was significantly associated with alcohol consumption 1 and 16 weeks after 09/11/01. We investigated the relationship between drinking motives measured a decade earlier, proximity to the WTC, and drinking after 09/11/01. This event constitutes a natural experiment for studying the effects of previously measured drinking motives on alcohol consumption after fateful trauma.
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