Young adults who were abused as children are more likely to vape as teenagers.
According to a new study published in The American Journal on Addictionsyoung adults who were abused as children are more likely to vape as teenagers.
Borderline personality
“Many young adults who experienced childhood abuse or neglect struggle with substance abuse. Our study looked specifically at e-cigarette use and found that abuse experienced during childhood may play a key role in adult e-cigarette use,” said the research’s lead author, Dr. Sunny H. Shin, of Virginia Commonwealth University.
Conducted among 208 Americans between the ages of 18 and 21, the trial states that childhood abuse was also linked to the tendency to “act recklessly when in distress”. It would be on this specific psychological lever that it would be necessary to act to prevent victims from taking up electronic cigarettes.
Two children are killed every week as a result of child abuse
Eventually, many abused children who become young adults have a complex personality, which often has the same clinical characteristics as the borderline personality. “Certain suicide attempts, acts of self-harm, dangerous games, risky sexual behaviors or addictive behaviors are intended to disconnect the frontal cortex from the emotional system, which makes it possible to create a state of emotional anesthesia providing transient relief”, specifies L’institute of victimology.
According to’ODAS, “the abused child is one who is the victim of physical violence, mental cruelty, sexual abuse, gross negligence, having serious consequences on his physical and psychological development”. In France, two children are killed each week as a result of abuse. 300,000 children are reported each year to social services, of which 160,000 are removed from their families. 70,000 are disabled for life due to abuse.
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