Why Personality May Matter in Preventing Alcoholism

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A program that takes personality into account may help to identify and reduce teen-drinking rates. Researchers studied 2,643 ninth-graders in England, ages 13 or 14 years old, for a project known as the Adventure trial. Teachers were trained to provide alcohol-abuse interventions to children with four personality traits that put them at high risk of problem drinking and drug use: being sensitive to anxiety, feeling hopeless, being impulsive and seeking thrills.

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