NEJM Journal Watch, Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 9/2018
Adolescent children who get inadequate sleep may develop dangerous behavioral disorders
Inadequate Sleep Linked to Risk Behaviors in Adolescents
When adolescent children sleep for an abnormally short period of time, they are more likely to engage in self-harm, smoking, alcoholism, other habitual drug use, and abnormally risky sexual behavior.
NEJM Journal Watch, Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 9/2018