A Contagion Model for Within-Family Transmission of Drug Abuse.

CONCLUSIONS:: These results suggest that drug abuse can be transmitted within families by an environmentally mediated temporally defined model of contagion. The most important methodological limitation is that drug abuse registration is an inaccurate measure of the onset of drug abuse. Indeed, as predicted, drug abuse risk increased among potential secondary case subjects in the year before drug abuse registration of the index case subject. PMID: 30818984 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30818984?dopt=Abstract

Source: The American Journal of Psychiatry - February 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Kendler KS, Ohlsson H, Sundquist J, Sundquist K Tags: Am J Psychiatry Source Type: research