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Dr. Gail Slap and Dr. William Holmes published in the Journal of the American Medical association (JAMA) the following:
"The perpetrators tend to be [heterosexual] males who are known but frequently unrelated to the victims. The abuse typically occurs outside of the home, is repeated and involves penetration. By the sixth grade, the rates of alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, and intravenous drugs are up to twenty-five to fifty times higher for boys who have been sexually abused than for boys who have not."
Lonny Shavelson, the author of "Hooked" said "Studies of girls had long before shown that some sixty percent who enter drug rehab have experienced incest and molestation as children. Seventy percent of the addicted women had been raped or molested prior to their substance abuse.
The significance of such high rates of sexual abuse for both men and women is profound.
'Remembering and experiencing feelings associated with sexual trauma' notes the Journal of Couseling and Development, 'is a major precipitant of relapse.'
Sexual molestation comes up so often in rehab because of how intense it is. You lose all trust in the world, I guess. Those who were molested as kids just can't figure out where to put that, so many turn to drink or drugs, or something to numb out the memories."
Dr. Michael Siever, the executive director of the Stonewall Project and www.Tweaker.org in San Francisco says that the incidence of childhood sexual trauma among meth addicts is over ninety percent.
