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Connecting Child Maltreatment and Substance Use Disorders
Made up of over 86 billion neurons, the brain remains one of the most puzzling and amazing organs in our bodies. You need it to do pretty much everything, so it’s safe to say it runs the show. When adverse experiences take place in childhood, these can leave profound and often perplexing effects on the brain. Some of these experiences fall under different forms of maltreatment such as physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. All forms of child maltreatment have consistently been associated with an abundance of mental health problems and substance use and disorders. Since the brain is still in [...]