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Risk-Taking Behavior Among Adolescents with Prenatal Drug Exposure and Extrauterine Environmental Adversity
1 Nov 2013
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OBJECTIVE: High-risk environments characterized by familial substance use, poverty, inadequate parental monitoring, and violence exposure are associated with an increased propensity for adolescents to engage in risk-taking behaviors (e.g., substance use, sexual behavior, and delinquency). However, additional factors such as drug exposure in utero and deficits in inhibitory control among drug-exposed youth may...
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