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How parents and teachers can identify and help young people self-medicating trauma with drugs and alcohol

  • Written by Katherine Mills, Associate Professor at The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney
How parents and teachers can identify and help young people self-medicating trauma with drugs and alcoholWhen adolescents develop stress from trauma and a reliance on drugs or alcohol, both conditions maintain and exacerbate the other.www.shutterstock.com

Some 80% of young people will experience a traumatic event by the time they become an adult. Rates of exposure to trauma peak during adolescence. The stress from traumatic events can result in a loss...

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