@article{ref1,
title="Alcohol abuse in abused and neglected children followed-up: are they at increased risk?",
journal="Journal of studies on alcohol",
year="1995",
author="Widom, C. S. and Ireland, Timothy O. and Glynn, P. J.",
volume="56",
number="2",
pages="207-217",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To examine whether childhood victimization leads to increased risk of alcohol abuse in young adulthood and whether there are differential responses by gender and type of abuse. METHOD: Substantiated cases of child abuse and/or neglect from 1967 to 1971 in a midwestern metropolitan county area were matched on the basis of age, race, sex and approximate family social class with a group of nonabused and nonneglected children and followed prospectively into young adulthood. Subjects were located and administered a 2-hour interview consisting of a series of structured and semistructured questions, rating scales and a psychiatric assessment using the NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule. Findings are based on completed interviews with 1,068 subjects (611 abused and/or neglected and 457 controls). RESULTS: No relationship between childhood victimization and subsequent alcohol abuse in men. A significant bivariate relationship for women was found, and the relationship persists when controlling for parental alcohol and/or drug problems, childhood poverty, race and age. CONCLUSIONS: The connection between early childhood victimization and subsequent alcohol abuse seems less robust and more complex than hypothesized.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0096-882X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}