Each year, substance abuse treatment programs in the United States record approximately
150,000 admissions of youths under the age of 18. Nevertheless, little is known about the …

Few systematic studies have examined the characteristics of substance abuse treatment
programs serving adolescents. An expert panel recently identified nine key elements of …

Adolescent substance use and misuse is a major public health problem. For example, a
recent Monitoring the Future report indiн cated that, in fiscal year (FY) 1999, 12 percent of …

Abstract The Adolescent Treatment Models initiative, a 10-site, multimodality, prospective
study, was designed to evaluate adolescent substance abuse treatment outcomes and to …

Adolescent Substance Abuse half of the adolescents who were placed in group homes by
the Juvenile Justice System had substance abuse problems. Additionally, Temple and …

The growing number of adolescents presenting for treatment to the nation's public treatment
system pose many challenges. Rather than personally seeking treatment, many of these …

Large-scale studies of drug abuse treatment effectiveness provide benchmarks that can be
used to gauge drug abuse treatment services at a given point in time, as well as over time …

A growing literature on adolescent drug treatment interventions demonstrates the efficacy of
“research therapies,” but few rigorous studies examine the effectiveness of community …

ABSTRACT A statewide treatment outcomes monitoring system included baseline interviews
with 387 adolescents and 363 parents representing 37 programs. This study examined …

OBJECTIVE: Although many adolescents use and abuse illicit drugs, few of those who could
benefit from substance abuse treatment ever receive these services. The present study …