… , not only in southern Africa … substance use among adolescent in sub-Saharan Africa as a
way forward towards strengthening the prevention and treatment of harmful use of substances …

… management relating to adolescent substance use in South Africa. Exploratory analysis and
… influence of demographic and socio-economic characteristics on adolescent substance use. …

… An association has also been found between adolescent substance use and … Adolescent
substance use may also have a number of adverse social consequences. Adolescent AOD use …

… Adolescent substance use continues to be a growing major public health concern in Africa.
… factors found to significantly influence adolescent substance use in Africa over the last two …

… We are unaware of studies in South Africa that have assessed family stress in relation to
adolescent substance use, and thus we do not have a specific empirical guide for this part of our …

… with adolescent drug use and delinquency in South Africa. We hypothesized adolescent
life skills to be inversely related and perceived norms to be directly related to later drug use …

… other drug use in South Africa [1], [2]. This study assesses the predictors of substance use by
studying a sample of South African youth … Illegal drug use among South African adolescents …

… During the 1990s, there were global increases in substance use among adolescents 3 –
5 ; however, most of the data from that period were derived from studies conducted in …

… adolescents (Parry, Myers et al., 2004). This proliferation of drugs and drug use in various
communities may heighten adolescents… the role of substance use in predicting adolescents' …

… substance use helps cope with negative affective states. By contrast, in adolescents, it is
unknown whether drug use … , drug use coping motives should be targeted by drug prevention …