An environmental risk factor for substance abuse and dependence is childhood sexual
abuse (CSA). We piloted an approach we developed to test the hypothesis that …

Purpose: Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is predictive of poorer mental health, greater
psychiatric disorder risk, and lower positive mental health (PMH) during adulthood …

It is the responsibility of adults to protect children from sexual abuse. Thus, raising parents'
awareness is particularly important since they are the ones who take care of the child and …

Objectives To determine whether studying aetiological pathways of depression, in particular
the well-established determinant of childhood trauma, only in a specialised mental …

Introduction Substance use treatment outcomes are challenging to predict: myriad
potentially relevant factors influence outcomes, including age, sex, motivations, and history …

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Adverse childhood experiences, which include child maltreatment, are a major public health
issue nationally. Child maltreatment has been linked to poorer cognitive functioning, which …

Background: Child sexual abuse is a form of abuse that involves sexual activity with a minor.
A child does not possess the ability to consent to any form of sexual activity. Therefore …

Objective: Studies have shown a relationship between the development of alcohol use
disorder (AUD) and the existence of childhood traumas (CT). In this study, in order to gain a …

In The Prescription-to-Prison Pipeline Michelle Smirnova argues that the ongoing opioid
drug epidemic is the result of an endless cycle in which suffering is medicalized and drug …