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To this end, this study used the data from an NIAAA-funded longitudinal study of Peer Victimization as a Pathway to Adolescent Substance Use (Livingston, 2013-2018, R01021169). A total of 800 participants at baseline were asked to complete a longitudinal online survey five times over a two-year period (once every six months). Adolescent participants were recruited for the study through Address Based Sampling (ABS) in a metropolitan county in the Northeastern United States. The age range of adolescent participants was 13 to 15 at baseline, with 57.4% (N=460) females. In terms of race, 81% are Caucasians, 11.5% African Americans, 6.6% Hispanic/Latino, 1.3% Asians, 0.6% Native Americans, and 4% multiracial group. Latent class analysis (LCA) with a distal outcome was used for analysis. This study used latent classes of peer bullying and sexual harassment as predictors of alcohol use, not as outcomes, by implementing the most up-to-date statistical approach, Bakk and Vermunt's (2016) weighting by classification error approach, applied in LCA. Results indicated that four latent classes of peer bullying and sexual harassment were identified via LCA: (1) Little or no involvement group (49%); (2) pure victims (28%); (3) bully-victims (14%); and (4) high involvement group (9%). There were significant differences in adolescents' alcohol use among the four latent classes identified. More specifically, compared to little or no involvement group, the other three classes used a significantly higher amount of alcohol. Gender did not moderate the relationship between classes of peer bullying/sexual harassment and alcohol use as a whole, but the results of specific gender interactions indicated that male adolescents used alcohol more than female peers within the bully-victim group. In terms of age interactions, age did not moderate the relationship between latent classes of peer bullying/sexual harassment and alcohol use. Among the covariates, peer alcohol use was strongly associated with adolescent increased alcohol use throughout the analysis, whereas age was associated with an increase in alcohol use only in some models. Policy implications regarding the prevention and intervention of peer bullying and sexual harassment were discussed briefly with regards to a need to make concerted efforts among parents, teachers, and school. 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