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Sharing Research about Adverse Childhood Experiences

• panic 10y ago
  Here's the infographic version of the research that's linked in the article: http://vetoviolence.cdc.gov/apps/phl/resource_center_infographic.html http://vetoviolence.cdc.gov/apps/phl/resource_center_infogra.... Even one adverse experience increases the chance of drug use, depression, alcoholism and suicide attempts by over 50%. Almost two thirds of participants (drawn from a cross-section of middle-class Americans) reported at least one such experience.
• dash2 10y ago
  Where's the science here? "Bad stuff in you childhood can mess you up?" I didn't need an acronym to tell me that.
  • panic 10y ago
    It's linked in the article: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/about.html https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/about.html