UI - 000226

AU - Tennant FS Jr.

AU - Detels R

AU - Clark V

TI - Some childhood antecedents of drug and alcohol abuse

AB - AB - Unsatisfactory intrafamilial relationships and child-rearing practices have frequently been

implicated as prime determinants of personalities that are susceptible to drug and alcohol abuse. Five

thousand forty-four US Army soldiers were surveyed by anonymous questionnaires. The reported

occurrence of a variety of activities, events and behaviors in childhood among drug and alcohol abusers were

compared to non users. Childhood antecedents that were associated with non-use of illegal drugs and which

showed as much as a 20% difference in reported occurrence between abusers and non-users of illegal drugs

were: spanking, church attendance, first alcoholic drink after 15 years, and perceived "happy" parental

marriage. These associations were found uithin white and non-white groups and in subjects with divorced or

separated parents. There was no antecedent that showed as much as a 20% difference in reported

occurrence between alcohol abusers and non-users UI - 76085301

SO - Am J Epidemiol 1975;102:377-385