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The Early Years

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Daley has interviewed some 61 young people with drug problems and at face value their lives were risky and chaotic. As she got to know them more, she began to learn about their early-life experiences and it is in this chapter that she reveals the shockingly high rates of child abuse, neglect, poverty and school separation among her sample. Family breakdown, involvement with state-care, parental substance abuse and family violence pervade the narratives of the young people in this study. Among Daley’s participants, there is a clear pattern between early-life trauma and later substance use and in this chapter she unravels how the former led to the latter for these teenagers.

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Daley, K. (2016). The Early Years. In: Youth and Substance Abuse. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33675-6_3

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