The experience of physiological and psychosocial alcohol-related harms across adolescence and its association with alcohol use disorder in early adulthood: A prospective cohort study

CONCLUSIONS: Adolescents display heterogeneous transition patterns across physiological and psychosocial alcohol-related harms. Females are at greater risk of experiencing early physiological harms. Experience of both physiological and psychosocial harms in late adolescence is an important and potentially modifiable precursor to clinically relevant alcohol problems in early adulthood.PMID:34921682 | DOI:10.1111/acer.14726

Source: Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research - December 18, 2021 Category: Addiction Authors: Wing See Yuen Raimondo Bruno Gary C K Chan Jim McCambridge Tim Slade Philip J Clare Alexandra Aiken Kypros Kypri Delyse Hutchinson Nyanda McBride Veronica Boland Emily Upton Michael Farrell Richard P Mattick Amy Peacock Source Type: research