Adolescent substance abuse: the challenge for clinicians.
Substance abusing adolescents represent a unique population of patients within substance abusing communities. The interrelationship between the characteristics of problem substance use and the developmental tasks of adolescence is considerable and often presents the clinician with a diagnostic and treatment challenge. The identification, evaluation, treatment, and prevention of substance abuse among teens requires extensive knowledge of substance abuse as well as knowledge of the typical developmental tasks of adolescence.
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Department of Pediatrics, East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, NC 27858.
D000293:Adolescent; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology