Adolescent precursors of young adult drinking motives.

CONCLUSIONS: Common and unique adolescent factors predicted trait-like drinking motives during young adulthood. These findings suggest the utility of intervening during the teen years to prevent or interrupt the development of cognitive motivations that encourage alcohol use for the purpose of affect regulation. PMID: 29533846 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29533846?dopt=Abstract

Source: Addictive Behaviors - March 6, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Windle RC, Windle M Tags: Addict Behav Source Type: research

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