Disasters Tied to Alcohol Abuse, PTSD in Young Victims

Disasters Tied to Alcohol Abuse, PTSD in Young Victims
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Adolescents with high exposure to major disasters have elevated levels of alcohol abuse and emotional trauma compared with their peers with lower exposure to these events, new research shows.

Youth who lived through both Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 have feelings of anger and experience family problems, investigators found.



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