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Economic Conditions at Birth Linked to Behavior in Teen Years

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HealthDay News
December 31, 2012

Infants growing up in households struggling with chronic unemployment may face a higher risk for engaging in substance abuse and a range of other delinquent behaviors as adolescents, new research suggests. The finding is reported in the Dec. 31 online issue of the journal Archives of General Psychiatry.

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Keywords: economic conditions, behavior, teens, substance use

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