The contribution of emotional maltreatment to alcohol dependence in a treatment-seeking sample

The Impact of Childhood Maltreatment on Age of Onset of Alcohol Use Disorder in Women

“…The present study highlights the importance of childhood emotional abuse in influencing earlier onset of AUD, which is in accordance with Potthast et al [23]. Our results indicate that exposure to childhood emotional abuse, rather than multiple traumas, is the strongest factor related to an earlier age of onset of AUD.…”

“…The prevalence of the different childhood maltreatments in this study is in line with that found by previous research of patients with AUD [8,23], as well as in studies focussing on women with AUD [9,22]; however, we found a higher prevalence than in community-based studies or healthy controls using the CTQ-SF [8,20,37]. Despite the high rates of childhood maltreatment, the women in this study still managed to establish social stability, including good education, high rates of partnership and employment.…”

“…Moreover, women with a history of physical trauma seem to have a stronger association with earlier onset AUD than women without this experience [13,22]. It has also been found that emotional maltreatment is a significant predictor of the severity of AUD (in this study, AD), especially with regard to an earlier age of onset [23]. It should be noted, however, that this study included a high number of male participants.…”

When abuse primes addiction — Automatic activation of alcohol concepts by child maltreatment related cues in emotionally abused alcoholics

“…Particularly, child maltreatment has been linked with AD both in samples of alcohol abusing individuals (Magnusson et al, 2012;Simpson & Miller, 2002;Young-Wolff, Kendler, Ericson, & Prescott, 2011) and in samples of traumatized subjects (Kilpatrick et al, 2000;Simpson & Miller, 2002;Singh, Thornton, & Tonmyr, 2011). The co-occurrence of child maltreatment experiences and AD has considerable clinical relevance, given that child maltreatment is associated with more severe negative AD outcomes, including an earlier age of drinking onset (Rothman, Edwards, Heeren, & Hingson, 2008), an earlier age of AD onset (Potthast, Neuner, & Catani, 2014), a multiple (Harrison, Fulkerson, & Beebe, 1997) and more frequent (Brems & Namyniuk, 2002) substance use as well as a greater risk of treatment dropout (Chapman, Dube, & Anda, 2007). Moreover, recent research indicates that emotional maltreatment has a predominant role regarding the development of AD and is even more relevant than physical or sexual maltreatment (Potthast et al, 2014;Rosenkranz, Muller, & Henderson, 2012;Schwandt, Heilig, Hommer, George, & Ramchandani, 2013).…”

“…The co-occurrence of child maltreatment experiences and AD has considerable clinical relevance, given that child maltreatment is associated with more severe negative AD outcomes, including an earlier age of drinking onset (Rothman, Edwards, Heeren, & Hingson, 2008), an earlier age of AD onset (Potthast, Neuner, & Catani, 2014), a multiple (Harrison, Fulkerson, & Beebe, 1997) and more frequent (Brems & Namyniuk, 2002) substance use as well as a greater risk of treatment dropout (Chapman, Dube, & Anda, 2007). Moreover, recent research indicates that emotional maltreatment has a predominant role regarding the development of AD and is even more relevant than physical or sexual maltreatment (Potthast et al, 2014;Rosenkranz, Muller, & Henderson, 2012;Schwandt, Heilig, Hommer, George, & Ramchandani, 2013). Additionally, there is evidence for a high co-occurrence of different types of child maltreatment in reminders) cues.…”