Report Confirms Increased Risk Of Smoking, Substance Abuse In Bipolar Adolescents
A study from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) supports previous reports that adolescents with bipolar disorder are at increased risk for smoking and substance abuse. The article appearing in the June Drug and Alcohol Dependence - describing the largest such investigation to date and the first to include a control group - also indicates that bipolar-associated risk is independent of the risk conferred by other disorders affecting study participants.
