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Researchers followed a group of kids from childhood into adulthood to track the link between trauma in early life and adult mental health.

Should Childhood Trauma Be Treated As A Public Health Crisis?

By: Erin Blakemore | NPR
Posted on: Friday, November 9, 2018

New research highlights the link between childhood trauma and mental illness and addiction in adulthood, leading some researchers to call it an issue as pressing as any infectious disease.