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Giuseppe Giordano

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Unexpected adverse childhood experiences and subsequent drug use disorder: a Swedish population study (1995-2011).

Author

  • Giuseppe Nicola Giordano
  • Henrik Ohlsson
  • Ken Kendler
  • Kristina Sundquist
  • Jan Sundquist

Summary, in English

Exposure to extraordinary traumatic experience is one acknowledged risk factor for drug use. We aim to analyse the influence of potentially life-changing childhood stressors, experienced second-hand, on later drug use disorder in a national population of Swedish adolescent and young adults (aged 15-26 years).

Department/s

  • Social Medicine and Health Policy
  • Family Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology
  • Family Medicine, Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Lifestyle
  • EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

1119-1127

Publication/Series

Addiction

Volume

109

Issue

7

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Substance Abuse

Status

Published

Research group

  • Social Medicine and Health Policy
  • Family Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology
  • Family Medicine, Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Lifestyle

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1360-0443