Incidence of drug problems in young adults exposed to trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder: do early life experiences and predispositions matter?

PL Reed, JC Anthony, N Breslau - Archives of General …, 2007 - jamanetwork.com
Context Most estimated associations of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) withDSM-
IVdrug dependence and abuse are from cross-sectional studies or from prospective studies
of adults that generally do not take into account suspected causal determinants measured in
early childhood. Objective To estimate risk for incident drug disorders associated with
priorDSM-IVPTSD. Design Multiwave longitudinal study of an epidemiologic sample of
young adults first assessed at entry to first grade of primary school in the fall semesters of …