The Contribution of Parental Alcohol Use Disorders and Other Psychiatric Illness to the Risk of Alcohol Use Disorders in the Offspring

Background Few population based studies have investigated associations between parental history of alcoholism and the risk of alcoholism in offspring. The aim was to investigate in a large cohort the risk of Alcohol Use Disorders (AUD) in the offspring of parents with or without AUD and with or without hospitalisation for other psychiatric disorder (OPD).