Vulnerability reawakened: Increased substance use among aging traumatized veterans during COVID-19 pandemic.

Zahava SolomonKarni GinzburgAvi OhryMario Mikulincer

Published in: Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy (2022)

The findings demonstrate the long-term effects of both earlier experience of severe traumatic stress in young adulthood and the resultant PTSD trajectories, as reflected in increased substance use among the elderly, in the face of subsequent calamity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Keyphrases

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