CelticViking
03-08-2012, 12:39 PM
CBS News) - Adopted children are twice as likely to use drugs if their biological parents used them, according a study of more than 18,000 adopted children in Sweden.
But don't discount a child's environment in the nature vs. nurture debate just yet: The same study showed that adopted children who lived with families with problems, such as divorce, death or criminal activity, also had a high risk of drug abuse.
"For an adoptee, having a biological parent with drug abuse who did not raise you doubles your risk for drug abuse," said first author Dr. Kenneth Kendler, director of the VCU Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, said in the press release. "But we also found an important role for environmental factors."
Read more here
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57391707-10391704/study-adopted-children-more-likely-to-abuse-drugs-if-biological-parent-did/
But don't discount a child's environment in the nature vs. nurture debate just yet: The same study showed that adopted children who lived with families with problems, such as divorce, death or criminal activity, also had a high risk of drug abuse.
"For an adoptee, having a biological parent with drug abuse who did not raise you doubles your risk for drug abuse," said first author Dr. Kenneth Kendler, director of the VCU Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, said in the press release. "But we also found an important role for environmental factors."
Read more here
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57391707-10391704/study-adopted-children-more-likely-to-abuse-drugs-if-biological-parent-did/