We sought to address the aforementioned gaps by systematically examining the relationship between alcohol consumption and violence using data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) collected between 2002 and 2013. Specifically, we made use of repeated cross-sectional data to construct an analytic sample that reflects a nationally representative non-traditional cohort of American youth who were 12 years old in 2002 and 24/25 in 2013. With this unique sample, we conducted a fine-grained analysis of the concurrent association between non-binge and binge alcohol use and violence for each age group between ages 12 and 24/25 while controlling for sociodemographic, drug-related, and school enrollment confounding variables. In effect, the present study provides a nuanced portrait of the relationship between alcohol use and violence in the lives of a cohort of American youth across the spectrum of adolescence and young adulthood between 2002 and 2013.