BOSTON — Girls and boys who experienced stress early in life were more likely than those with lower stress scores to use alcohol, nicotine and cannabis by age 13 years, according to a presenter at ENDO 2024.
However, the mechanisms by which early-life stress affects risks for substance use are likely different for boys and girls, Alexandra Donovan, PhD, MS, a postdoctoral fellow at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, told Healio.
Donovan and colleagues examined the contributions of three types of early-life stress on risk for substance use — a full