Substance Misuse in Adolescence

This book untangles popular beliefs about substance abuse issues from historical clinical and research evidence to address questions such as: What factors cause teenagers to abuse drugs and alcohol? How much of a role do economic factors and neighbourhoods play?</p><p></p><p>Following an introduction which outlines the social history of tobacco alcohol marijuana cocaine and heroin the volume examines: individual family peer and community variables that contribute to substance misuse; resiliency factors that enable some adolescents to avoid such problems; substance abuse in rural and urban settings; pharmacological effects; and current treatment approaches.