Heavy drug-use among bad boys curbed by parental monitoring and peers

Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 10:42 in Psychology & Sociology

Aggressive and hyperactive boys with low parental monitoring are more likely to befriend deviant peers and become heavy drug users as teens, according to a new study published in the journal Addictive Behaviours. Yet the investigation by scientists from the Universite de Montreal and Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Centre found that bad boys can be protected from heavy substance use as teenagers if they are highly monitored and befriend good boys as children...

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