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Childhood victimization and illicit drug use in middle adulthood.
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Using a prospective cohort design, the authors examined in this study whether childhood victimization increases the risk for illicit drug use and related problems in middle adulthood. Court-documented cases of childhood physical and sexual abuse and neglect and matched controls (N = 892) were first assessed as young adults (mean age = 29 years) during 1989-1995 and again in middle adulthood (mean age = 40 years) during 2000-2002. In middle adulthood, abused and neglected individuals were about 1.5 times more likely than controls to report using any illicit drug (in particular, marijuana) during the past year and reported use of a greater number of illicit drugs and more substance-use-related problems compared with controls. The current results reveal the long-term impact of childhood victimization on drug use in middle adulthood. These new results reinforce the need for targeted interventions with abused and neglected children, adolescents, and adults, and particularly for women.
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“Widom, Marmorstein, and White (2006), in their prospective study on childhood victimization and illicit drug use in middle adulthood, found that at least 20 studies published between 1975 and 1989 demonstrated evidence for a relationship between childhood abuse and substance use.”
From A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE ON THE IMPACT OF EXPOSURE TO INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH (2014) · cites this paper as Widom, Marmorstein, and White, 2006
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Metadata
- Authors
- Spatz Widom, C., Marmorstein, N. R., & Raskin White, H.
- Affiliations
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
- Venue
- Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
- Published
- 2006-12
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 394-403
- ISSN
- 0893-164X (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1501
- OpenAlex
- W1977811346
- Cited by
- 278
- References
- 92
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 12.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychology of Addictive Behaviors (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD40774)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA017842; DA10060; DA017552)
- US Department of Justice (86-IJ-CX-0033; 89-IJ-CX-0007)
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH49467; MH58386)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Child Welfare and Adoption
- Keywords
- child victimization, childhood abuse, child neglect, illicit drug use, cannabis use, problematic substance use, midlife, long-term effects of abuse, women
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Alcoholism, Child, Child Abuse, Child Abuse, Sexual, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Prospective Studies, Risk Factors, Statistics as Topic, Illicit Drugs, Cohort Studies, Crime Victims, Substance-Related Disorders
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