# Boys with social difficulties most susceptible to early substance use

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> **[Boys with social difficulties most susceptible to early substance use](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181203131133.htm)**
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> Boys who enter sixth-grade with co-occurring social skills, anxiety, learning and conduct problems are at the greatest risk of developing aggressive behavior and using tobacco, alcohol and marijuana by the end of eighth grade, a new study found.

  
Boys who enter sixth-grade with co-occurring social skills, anxiety, learning and conduct problems are at the greatest risk of developing aggressive behavior and using tobacco, alcohol and marijuana by the end of eighth grade, a new study found.