Parents as interventionists: Addressing adolescent substance use

Addressing adolescent substance use in a paediatric health-care setting.

AIM The aim of this study is to review the operation of a specialist adolescent drug and alcohol consultation liaison service in a tertiary paediatric hospital. METHOD A retrospective review of patient records was conducted to identify patient characteristics and assess service utilisation. RESULTS Two hundred adolescents were referred over 4 years. Most presented during mid-adolescence (14...

Adolescent substance use.

Novelty Seeking as a Phenotypic Marker of Adolescent Substance Use

Trait novelty seeking has been consistently implicated in substance use, yet the origins and mechanisms of novelty seeking in substance use proneness are unclear. We aimed to characterize novelty seeking as a phenotypic marker of substance use proneness in adolescence, a critical period for drug use experimentation. To this end, we parsed novelty seeking's two constituent subdimensions - explor...

Processes linking parents' and adolescents' religiousness and adolescent substance use: monitoring and self-control.

Empirical evidence suggests that religiousness is related negatively to adolescent substance use; yet, we know little about how such protective effects might occur. The current study examined whether parents' and adolescents' religiousness are associated positively with parental, religious, and self-monitoring, which in turn are related to higher self-control, thereby related to lower adolescen...

Impulsivity, peer influence, and adolescent substance use