Sexually victimized girls with PTSD not more likely to binge drink later
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 10:01
in Health & Medicine
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common outcome of sexual assault among many teenage girls, but they do not necessarily cope by binge drinking, a new study finds. When they occur in these girls, PTSD symptoms, such as unwanted recollections of the assault, decrease over time.