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The Young Addict and His Family

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

C. M. Rosenberg
C. M. Rosenberg*
Affiliation:
Boston City Hospital, Boston, Mass. 02118; and Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
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The available evidence suggests that adolescent drug addicts are likely to have an underlying personality disorder, to come from broken homes, and to have parents who are alcoholic, antisocial or mentally ill (Nylander, 1964; Chein, 1965; Rosenberg, 1969a and b). Assuming that a background of family instability is related to deviant behaviour—including the abuse of drugs—it seems probable that some of the siblings of young addicts, who grew up in similar circumstances, would also become the subjects of psychiatric disorder.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 118 , Issue 545 , April 1971 , pp. 469 - 470
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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