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Children who don’t get enough sleep are in greater danger of getting hooked on drink or drugs, warns new research.
Senior study author Professor Anne-Marie Chang, of Penn State University, said: “The study suggests that there might be some critical ages when sleep can be a target for intervention.Teenagers are more likely to have tried alcohol or cannabis by the age of 15 if they went to bed late and slept fewer hours during childhood.
They explained that if youngsters, especially school-aged children, go to bed later, it can affect their ability to sleep well.“It’s important for children because it helps with growth and development. Parents reported their child’s regular weekday bedtime at ages three, five and nine. They also reported their child’s sleep duration at ages five and nine.
When it came to cannabis use, later bedtime at age five was associated with 26% increased odds of trying the drug by the age of 15, while sleeping an hour less at age nine was associated with 19% increased likelihood odds of trying weed by 15.The study, published in the journal Annals of Epidemiology, involved data from 1,514 children in 20 cities across the United States.
Dr Reichenberger said: “Sleep at ages closer to adolescence is the most crucial in terms of future substance use risk. He said previous research by other groups suggests that shorter sleep duration and later bedtimes may increase impulsivity and impair decision making, which could influence substance use choices.Sleeping one hour less was associated with 28% greater likelihood of ever trying alcohol, but wasn’t associated with cannabis use.
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