Although early use of alcohol during adolescence has been consistently associated with increased risk of alcoholism in adulthood, the specifi c mechanisms that underlie this association remain unclear. We describe a program of epidemiological twin-family research that shows that early use of alcohol
Assessment and Diagnosis of the Substance Use Disorders (SUDs)
β Scribed by William N. Evans
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 118 KB
- Volume
- 76
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1556-6678
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