My Childhood Made Me Do It! [Blogs.PsychCentral.com]

Samantha Sangenito 8/1/1412:00 PM

The Adverse Childhood Experience Study demonstrates how susceptibility to alcoholism and drug abuse rises in near-lockstep with one’s burden of early hardships. A person with an ACE Score of six or more may suffer a two-decade loss of life expectancy. Formative hardship explains so much, it’s a tragedy we don’t talk about it more.

[For more of this story, written by Will Meecham, go to http://blogs.psychcentral.com/childhood-adversity/2014/07/my-childhood-made-me-do-it/

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