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Childhood Conduct Problems Predict Age of First Drink
Behavior problems are better predictors of when children will have their first drink than a family history of alcohol dependence, according to researchers here.For each of 13 conduct problems a child had -- issues such as fighting, lying, stealing, or skipping school -- the age of the first drink decreased by about three months, said psychiatrist Samuel Kuperman, M.D., of the University of Iowa in a study published in the October issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and...