Association Between Child Maltreatment and Substance Use Disorder Across Emerging Adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Child maltreatment is associated with substance use beginning in adolescence and throughout early adulthood. Substance use disorders (SUD) are most likely to develop during emerging adulthood (18-25 years old). Thus, to develop effective substance use prevention strategies, it is useful to know the ages at which associations between maltreatment exposure (prior to age 18) and SUD are most strongly tied. This study examined the age-varying association between child maltreatment and past-year SUD in emerging adulthood by sex and by maltreatment type using time-varying effect models (TVEM). Data were from the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC-III). The analytic sample consisted of 5194 emerging adults. The association was strongest at younger ages, with

SUBMITTER: Guastaferro K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10981177 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature