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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Addiction. 2014 Jul;109(7):1119–1127. doi: 10.1111/add.12537

Table 1.

Frequencies and percentages (%) of sample population who experienced unexpected adverse childhood experiences (UACE), stratified by drug use disorder (DUD) N = 1,409,218; follow-up time: mean 6.2 years; range 11 years

No DUD DUD
N (total) 1,350,239 (95.8) 58,979 (4.2)
Cumulative UACE variable:
Parent (P) and sibling (S)
69,880 (93.6) 4,811 (6.4)
UACE (P) 60,331 (93.5) 4,228 (6.6)
UACE (S) 13,474 (92.4) 1,103 (7.6)
Individual UACE variables
Malignant Cancer (P) 35,070 (95.4) 1,708 (4.6)
Malignant Cancer (S) 4,300 (95.9) 183 (4.1)
Permanent disability through injury (P) 4,728 (94.1) 295 (5.9)
Permanent disability through injury (S) 1,580 (94.5) 92 (5.5)
Death (P) 25,462 (92.1) 2,200 (7.9)
Death (S) 2,542 (94.7) 143 (5.3)
Victim of Assault (P) 4,725 (87.6) 667 (12.4)
Victim of Assault (S) 5,710 (88.9) 714 (11.1)
Covariates
Divorce (P) 395,736 (93.6) 27,048 (6.4)
Women 671,363 (98.0) 13,665 (2.0)
Men 678,867 (93.7) 45,313 (6.3)
Low education (P) 80,069 (92.8) 6,223 (7.2)
Middle education (P) 386,447 (94.6) 22,028 (5.4)
High education (P) 883,723 (96.6) 30,728 (3.4)
Mental Health (P) 61,137 (90.2) 6.620 (9.8)
DUD (P) 49,386 (85.5) 8,379 (14.5)
DUD (S) 58,014 (84.0) 11,089 (16.1)
Alcohol Use Disorder (P) 32,684 (89.2) 3,948 (10.8)