2018 PEP Fellow Elizabeth Evans' study on how childhood adversity increases the risk of alcohol and drug use disorders for veterans receives wide coverage

Results of a national study covered in Business WestScience Newsline, the Republican, and WFCR by 2018 PEP Fellow, Elizabeth Evans, with others at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the University of California, Los Angeles, suggest that risk for alcohol and drug use disorders among United States military veterans is increased by childhood adversity, in ways that are different between women and men and different compared to the civilian population.

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