Article: Childhood ADHD and conduct disorder as independent predictors of male alcohol dependence at age 40.(attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)(Report)

THE Danish Longitudinal Study on Alcoholism (Goodwin et al., 1994) has examined two groups of males for 40 years: (1) high-risk sons of fathers diagnosed and treated for alcoholism and (2) low-risk sons of fathers with no official record of being treated for alcoholism. The high-risk research paradigm was adopted because evidence from family, twin, and adoption studies indicates that biological sons of alcoholic fathers have a significantly increased risk of developing alcoholism themselves, even when father and son are raised apart (Goodwin et al., 1973). The high-risk paradigm provided an opportunity to identify premorbid antecedent influences possibly responsible for ...

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