Substance use, childhood traumatic experience, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in an urban civilian population

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1077-1086

  Khoury, Lamya ^a   Tang, Yilang L ^a   Bradley, Bekh ^a,b   Cubells, Joe F ^a   Ressler, Kerry J ^a,c,d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; alcohol; childhood maltreatment; cocaine; Marijuana; minority; opiate; psychiatry; trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD PHYSICAL ABUSE; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CHILDHOOD; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPIATE ADDICTION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STREET DRUGS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 78649986640     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.20751     Document Type: Article

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