What Risks Do Offspring of Parents With Alcohol Use Disorder Face?
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) has long been known to aggregate in families, and the prevalence of related disorders with which they are often comorbid (e.g., drug use and other psychiatric disorders) are also elevated in those families. Understanding the basis for both the comorbidity and the familial aggregation is complicated because families share both genetics and much of their environment, both of which contribute to risk. Disentangling these two sources of risk is important if we wish to gain insight