Linking Heavy Drinking, Conduct Disorder And High-Risk Sexual Behavior

Psychiatry researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that a clinical diagnosis of alcohol dependence in young adults is associated with having a high number of sex partners.”Some participants in the study reported 50 or 100 partners, and research shows - and common sense tells you - that the more sex partners you have, the more likely you’ll encounter someone with an STD,” says first author Patricia Cavazos-Rehg, Ph.D. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs on December 6th, 2007