By offering unique analysis and synthesis of theory, empirical research, and clinical
guidance in an up-to-date and unbiased context, this book assists health and social care …

More than 90 percent of adults with current substance use disorders started using before
age 18, engaging in behaviors that affect healthy neurological and psychological …

This text provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the essential aspects of youth
substance abuse—an important contemporary personal, social, and public health issue …

This long-awaited follow-up to the classic text Clinical Manual of Adolescent Substance
Abuse Treatment presents the latest research on substance use and substance use …

Clinicians are now facing new substance use-related challenges such as the opioid crisis, a
changing political landscape regarding marijuana, and the emergence of new delivery …

Adolescent substance abuse is the nation's# 1 public health problem. It originates out of a
developmental era where experimentation with the world is increasingly taking place, and …

This book came about in response to the ever-present challenge of treating adolescent drug
use and abuse. Adolescent substance abuse treatment, in contrast to adult treatment, which …

The preceding chapters have offered a grand tour of treatment science and related topics in
the specialty of adolescent substance abuse. They provide evidence for the remarkable …

Adolescent substance misuse and abuse have been the changing focus of the popular
press in the United States and the general public since the late 1970s. A bio/psycho/social …

Highly Commended, BMA Medical Book Awards 2014This highly practical manual presents
an ideal introduction to adolescent substance use. It offers invaluable guidance for all …