How Multiple Childhood Maltreatments Lead To Greater Adolescent Binge Drinking

Sunday, March 8, 2009 - 22:21 in Health & Medicine

Researchers examined the relationship of binge drinking with the co-occurence of such specific childhood maltreatments as neglect, physical abuse and sexual abuse in combination and separately on adolescents. The effects of these adverse maltreatments increase an individual's risk for alcohol problems in adolescence.

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