Parental and Own Substance Use Disorder: The Intersection of Gender and Early Adversity

Overview

Journal Drug Alcohol Depend

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2022 Mar 26

PMID 35338899

Authors

Jenna Van Draanen

Carol S Aneshensel

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Abstract

Background: Children who are exposed to parental substance use disorder (SUD) have a higher risk of SUD themselves. This study examines the extent to which the association between parental and own SUD is conditional upon childhood trauma, socioeconomic status, and gender.

Methods: This study uses data from the Nashville Stress and Health Study with 1234 respondents ages 25-65 collected from 2011 to 2014, weighted be representative of the general population. The association between parental SUD and own SUD was estimated using Cox Proportional Hazard Models, controlling for covariates, and testing for interactions.

Results: Other things being equal, the risk of own SUD is more strongly associated with parental SUD in households with childhood traumas among men, but not women. Childhood trauma is not associated with own SUD in the absence of parental SUD among men. For men with parental SUD exposure, just one traumatic event is associated with a 38% increased risk of own SUD (HR=1.382, SE=.201, p < 0.05). For men, living with grandparents is associated with added SUD risk (HR=1.476, SE=.228, p < 0.05). For women, childhood trauma is not associated with own SUD, but parental SUD (HR=1.556, SE=.238, p < 0.01), and early onset mood or anxiety disorder (HR=1.682, SE=.316, p < 0.01) are. For both genders, those who are African American have lower risk of SUD than those who are White (HR=0.774, SE=.109, p < 0.05 for women; HR=0.672, SE=.079, p < 0.01 for men).

Conclusions: Parental SUD is associated with a substantial increase in risk for own SUD, and this association differs by gender and early trauma.

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