title: Familial risk factors favoring drug addiction onset.
abstract: This study, primarily aimed at identification of familial risk factors favoring drug addiction onset, was carried out throughout 2008 and 2009. The study comprised a total of 146 addicts and 134 control subjects. Based on the study outcome, it can be concluded that in the families the addicts were born into, familial risk factors capable of influencing their psychosocial development and favoring drug addiction onset had been statistically more frequently encountered during childhood and adolescence as compared to the controls. The results also indicated the need for further research into familial interrelations and the structure of the families addicts were born into, as well as the need for the implementation of family-based approaches to both drug addiction prevention and therapy.
authors.affiliation: Governmental Office of the General Programs & Strategies Department, Office for Combating Drug Abuse of the Government of the Republic of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia. jadranka.ivandic@uredzadroge.hr
authors.forename: Jadranka Ivandić
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Zimić
authors.forename: Vlado
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Jukić
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000328:Adult; D017668:Age of Onset; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D017523:Croatia / Q000453:epidemiology; D055030:Drug Users / Q000523:psychology*; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D055815:Young Adult