Background Drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease. Primary interventions should
aim to reduce first use or to prevent the transition from experimental use to addiction. School …

Currently, a proportion of adolescents use alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs, which inevitably
harms their health and academic progress. Adolescence is a peak period for substance use …

BACKGROUND: Two competing concepts address the development of involvement with
psychoactive substances: the “gateway hypothesis”(GH) and common liability to addiction …

Background Alcohol misuse in young people is cause of concern for health services, policy
makers, prevention workers, criminal justice system, youth workers, teachers, parents. This …

Drug use represents a significant burden to public health through disease, disability and
social problems, and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in how to develop …

Background Helping young people to avoid starting smoking is a widely endorsed public
health goal, and schools provide a route to communicate with nearly all young people …

We systematically searched 9 biomedical and social science databases (1980–2012) for
primary and secondary interventions that prevented or reduced 2 or more adolescent health …

Opioid overdose deaths remain a major public health crisis. We used a system dynamics
simulation model of the US opioid-using population age 12 and older to explore the impacts …

This paper describes evidence-based kernels, fundamental units of behavioral influence
that appear to underlie effective prevention and treatment for children, adults, and families. A …

Aun cuando existe un reconocimiento de la importancia de la salud mental en el campo de
la salud pública y de la amplia utilización de este concepto en los ámbitos profesionales …