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Drug Use

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Illicit drug use and abuse are serious problems for society. The use of these substances—marijuana, inhalants, amphetamines, hallucinogens such as LSD, tranquilizers, cocaine, opiates such as heroin, and steroids—have health, social, emotional, legal, and behavioral consequences that are serious and far-reaching for adolescents. In this chapter, we summarize prior research on epidemiology, prevention, and treatment research to provide an accurate albeit brief picture of the state-of-the-art.

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  1. Department of Public Health Sciences, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27157, USA

    William B. Hansen

  2. Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48106, USA

    Patrick M. O’Malley

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  3. Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

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Hansen, W.B., O’Malley, P.M. (1996). Drug Use. In: DiClemente, R.J., Hansen, W.B., Ponton, L.E. (eds) Handbook of Adolescent Health Risk Behavior. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0203-0_7

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