This article reviews recent literature on the precursors of drug and alcohol misuse which can be identified during childhood or adolescence. Risk factors for later substance misuse are conceptualized as heterogeneous mechanisms interacting across a broad spectrum of psychosocial and biological levels. New genetic and physiological developments which hold promise in linking these levels are described.
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Berman et al. (1993) studied this question.