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United Press International - November 15, 2006
Study participants ages 15 to 21 were categorized into two groups -- arrestees and non-arrestees. Researchers in Rhode Island, Georgia and Florida assessed both groups of adolescents in terms of their alcohol and drug use, substance abuse during sex, unprotected sex acts, sexually transmitted infection diagnoses, attitudes about substance use and unprotected sex, suicide attempts and psychiatric hospitalizations.
"We found that adolescents with a history of arrest were significantly more likely to use alcohol and drugs, engage in unprotected sex acts, use a substance during sex and have significant mental health histories than adolescents without a history of arrest," says lead author Marina Tolou-Shams of the Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center and Brown Medical School.
The findings are published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
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