Citation

Ambreen Taj A, Keenan E, Casey P. Ir. J. Psychol. Med. 2008; 25(1): 29-30.

Affiliation

Department of Adult Psychiatry,The Mater Hospital,63 Eccles St,Dublin 7,Ireland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Irish Institute of Psychological Medicine)

DOI

10.1017/S0790966700010818

PMID

30290576

Abstract

There is a strong link between childhood adversity and subsequent substance misuse. We describe a case of childhood adversity consisting of physical and sexual abuse, experience of homelessness in childhood and adulthood, intimate partner violence and polysubstance misuse in a 32 year old woman currently attending the methadone maintenance programme in the Drug Treatment Centre Board, Trinity Court, Dublin. The relevant literature to the case is reviewed in relation to the aetiology and symptoms of this complex case.

Language: en