The ACE Study and Drug Abuse

On this episode, we discuss the ACE Study or Adverse Childhood Experience Study with Dr. Susan Maloney of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Maloney is board certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner and a Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. The ACE Study has been called the “The single most important public health study that most healthcare providers don’t know about”. The study revealed the damaging effects of trauma on children, which results in long-term negative health affects, including the startleing statistics regarding a vulnerability to drug and alcohol addiction.