Early Onset of Substance Abuse: Implications for Student Assistance Programs
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Student assistance (SA) professionals regularly encounter youth involved in a variety of highrisk behaviors — substance experimentation, high-risk sexual activity, sensation-seeking, intentional self-injury and acts of aggression toward property and people. Particularly striking to many long-tenured SA professionals is the growing co-occurrence of these behaviors and the lowering of the age at which these behaviors are seen. This article explores the early age of onset of substance use and its implications for the student assistance professional.
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