Promotion of good mental health, prevention, and early intervention before/at the onset of
mental disorders improve outcomes. However, the range and peak ages at onset for mental …

Background Adolescence is a critical biological, psychological, and social developmental
stage involving heightened risk for substance use and associated adverse consequences …

A comprehensive account of the causes of alcohol misuse must accommodate individual
differences in biology, psychology and environment, and must disentangle cause and effect …

Substance use disorders occur commonly in patients with schizophrenia and dramatically
worsen their overall clinical course. While the exact mechanisms contributing to substance …

Psychiatric and behavior problems are common among children and young adults, and
many go without care or only receive treatment in carceral settings. We examined racial and …

Aims: The aim of the study was to summarize results of recent epidemiological research on
adolescent alcohol use and its consequences, to outline the risk factors for drinking in …

Epidemiological studies of substance use and substance use disorders (SUDs) have
provided an abundance of data on the patterns of substance use in nationally representative …

Objective To estimate the association of prior lifetime mental disorders with transitions
across stages of substance use in a cross-sectional, nationally representative sample of US …

Media, from television to the “new media”(including cell phones, iPads, and social media),
are a dominant force in children's lives. Although television is still the predominant medium …

Many adolescents engage in risk behaviors such as substance use and aggression that
jeopardize their healthy development. This study tested the hypothesis that an authoritative …