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Study links sleep, early drug use

U-M finds more substance abuse in teens who slept
badly as toddlers

Thursday, April 15, 2004

BY TRACY DAVIS
News Staff Reporter


Young teens who had trouble sleeping as toddlers are twice
as likely to use drugs, alcohol and cigarettes, a new University
of Michigan study released Wednesday found.

The
relationship
between
poor sleep
habits and
early
substance
use
remained
solid even
after
researchers
controlled
for
depression,
aggression,
attention
problems and parental alcoholism.

"It appears to indicate some shared neurobiological
dysfunction whose details we don't yet know," said senior
author and U-M Addiction Research Center director Robert
Zucker.

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