Early adolescent substance use dramatically increases the risk of lifelong substance use
disorder (SUD). An adolescent sensitive period evolved to allow the development of risk …

Stress is a well‐known risk factor in the development of addiction and in addiction relapse
vulnerability. A series of population‐based and epidemiological studies have identified …

▪ Abstract Socioeconomic status (SES) is one of the most widely studied constructs in the
social sciences. Several ways of measuring SES have been proposed, but most include …

This chapter considers the measurement of supportive functions that are perceived to be
available if needed (perceived support) or functions that are reported to be recently provided …

The relation of psychosocial protective factors to involvement in problem behavior (alcohol
and drug abuse, delinquency, and sexual precocity) was investigated in a longitudinal study …

OBJECTIVE To extend the analysis of psychosocial risk factors for smoking presented in the
United States surgeon general's 1994 report on smoking and health, and to propose a …

This study describes binge drinking trajectories from adolescence to emerging adulthood in
238 children of alcoholics and 208 controls. Mixture modeling identified three trajectory …

OBJECTIVE: To understand to the degree to which a broad variety of victimizations,
including child maltreatment, conventional crime, peer, and sexual victimizations, persist for …

Family conflict and poor parenting are generic risk factors associated with a wide variety of
adverse developmental outcomes in children including increased risk for conduct problems …

While prevalence rates for alcohol use and related disorders differ widely between adult
men and women, male and female adolescents do not exhibit the same disparity in alcohol …