The study explored associations among childhood abuse, post-traumatic stress symptoms
(PTSS), and alcohol misuse in a sample of low-income African-American women (N= 172) …

Previous studies demonstrate that PTSD mediates the relationship between childhood
trauma and alcohol and substance use disorders and that PTSD and alcohol/substance use …

Background The aims of this study were to (i) characterize racial differences in alcohol
involvement and (ii) examine the risk conferred by specific trauma exposures and …

Robust data document the strong association between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
symptoms and problematic alcohol use in female psychiatric patients. Reasons for this …

African American women experience a high prevalence of alcohol-related consequences,
and no studies have explicitly examined the associations among lifetime interpersonal …

Objective: This study examined mechanisms that might account for the association between
early childhood abuse and neglect, and substance use and related problems in adulthood …

There are elevated rates of childhood maltreatment and posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) symptomatology in low-income, abused, suicidal African American women. This …

Background The association of traumatic experiences with problematic alcohol use has
been described, but data on possible mediation effects of mental distress are sparse. We …

The present study examined the extent to which different types of traumatic experiences
interact with sex and race to effect alcohol use, posttraumatic stress symptomatology, and …

The goal of the current study was to examine whether the magnitude of the association
between childhood physical abuse (CPA) and alcohol use disorder (AUD) varies by type of …