This is truly a ‘self-study’ title: no assignments, no tasks, just really important thought-provoking information. Did you know that as the number of traumatic events experienced during childhood increases, the risk for the following health problems in adulthood increases: depression, alcoholism, drug abuse, suicide attempts, heart and liver diseases, pregnancy problems, high stress, uncontrollable anger, and family, financial, and job problems.

Current research indicates that people who have experienced trauma are:

• 15 times more likely to attempt suicide
• 4 times more likely to become an alcoholic
• 4 times more likely to develop a sexually transmitted disease
• 4 times more likely to inject drugs
• 3 times more likely to use antidepressant medication
• 3 times more likely to be absent from work
• 3 times more likely to experience depression
• 3 times more likely to have serious job problems
• 2.5 times more likely to smoke
• 2 times more likely to develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• 2 times more likely to have a serious financial problem

Find out more about

• Toxic stress
• More about ACEs
• How big is the problem?
• How can we address ACEs?
• The lifelong costs of ACEs
• Raising resilient children
• How to make young brains flourish and become more resilient