Although the individuals with early-onset antisociality/underarousal/low-AAS are a minority, by negating societal (parental) norms they constitute a highly charged social nucleus attracting adolescents who come into contact with it, real or virtual—unless protected genetically, by upbringing, and/or by social environment. Premature autonomy increases the risk of problem behavior (and thus of addiction) regardless of whether it can be ascribed to parental management deficits (Dishion et al., 2004) or relatively precocious physical maturation (combined with suboptimal brain maturation) (Tarter et al., 1999). Both are likely to result in affiliation with older and deviant peers, mediating transmissibility of addiction liability (Kirillova et al., 2008). The detachment from parents, augmented by the age-related rise in explorative behavior and expanded access to novel environments and stimuli, may include dissociation from the behavioral norms of the parental generation, i.e., frequently, the social norms.
