title: Understanding recovery barriers: youth perceptions about substance use relapse.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To qualitatively explore how treatment-involved youth retrospectively contextualize relapse from substance use.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fourteen focus groups were conducted with 118 youth (78.3% male; 66.1% Latino) enrolled in participating substance abuse treatment programs  (4 young adult and 10 adolescent) throughout Los Angeles County. Transcripts were analyzed for relapse perception themes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Dominant relapse themes include emotional reasons (90%), life stressors (85%), cognitive factors (75%), socialization processes (65%), and environmental  issues (55%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Youth perceptions about relapse during treatment should be used to better inform clinical approaches and shape early-intervention recovery agendas for substance-abusing youth.
authors.affiliation: Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. rachelmg@ucla.edu
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gonzales
authors.forename: M Douglas
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Anglin
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Beattie
authors.forename: Chris Angelo
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Ong
authors.forename: Deborah C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Glik
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002140:California; D003071:Cognition; D004644:Emotions; D004777:Environment; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010045:Outpatients; D012008:Recurrence; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology; D055815:Young Adult