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US: Trauma in childhood linked to drug use in adolescence
Medical News Today – June 09, 2016
Latest research from a national sample of almost 10,000 U.S. adolescents found psychological trauma, especially abuse and domestic violence before age 11, can increase the likelihood of experimentation with drugs in adolescence, independent of a history of mental illness. Results of the study conducted at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health are published online in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. This is the first study to document these associations in a national sample of adolescents. Study: http://www.jaacap.com/article/S0890-8567%2816%2930212-X/abstract
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