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Article: Are Toddlers Who Can't Sleep at Higher Risk of Becoming Teens Who Smoke, Drink or Do Drugs? Long-Term Family Study Finds Links Between Early Childhood Sleep Problems, Adolescent Substance Use.
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- AScribe Health News Service
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- April 14, 2004
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Byline: University of Michigan Health System
ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- A long-term study has found a significant connection between sleep problems in children's toddler years and the chance that they'll use alcohol, cigarettes and drugs early in their teen years. Young teens whose preschool sleep habits were poor were more than twice as likely to use drugs, tobacco or alcohol.
The surprising finding, made by a University of Michigan Health System team as part of a family health study that followed 257 boys and their parents for 10 years, held true even after other issues such as depression, aggression, attention problems and ...