Abortion Legalization and Adolescent Substance Use

Adolescent substance use.

Impulsivity, peer influence, and adolescent substance use

Parental substance use consequences and adolescent psychopathology.

OBJECTIVE This study examines the relationship between parental substance use consequences and adolescent psychological problems by gender of the adolescent and gender of the parent. METHOD The data in this study were collected between 1989 and 1994 from 173 (116 proband and 57 control) families participating in the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) project. All 173 ado...

Reducing the harm of adolescent substance use.

DES HAUSSES RÉCENTES DE LA TOXICOMANIE CHEZ LES ADOLESCENTS attirent l’attention sur des programmes scolaires d’éducation sur les drogues. On a remis en question l’efficacité des programmes classiques, et des chercheurs préconisent de nouvelles méthodes fondées sur les principes de la réduction du préjudice. Une stratégie de réduction du préjudice reconnaît qu’il est irréaliste d’essayer de pré...

Psychosocial Problems Syndemically Increase Adolescent Substance Use

A growing body of studies have indicated the associations between substance use and psychosocial problems in adolescents. However, few of them have examined whether these psychosocial problems form a syndemic, which means the co-occurrence of psychosocial problems accompanied by additional effects on substance use.We conducted a cross-sectional survey with 82,812 Chinese adolescents who were se...