Identity (Re)Construction of Female Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders

Adolescents at Risk for Substance Use Disorders

Adolescents with alcohol-related problems often also use cigarettes and marijuana. Furthermore, early childhood characteristics that increase the risk for adolescent alcohol use disorders also increase the risk for problematic drug use. Identifying these characteristics early in childhood can be important for the prevention of alcohol and other drug (AOD) use disorders. As a result, researchers...

Social Work Guidelines for Street Children with Substance Use disorders

This study was designed with the purpose of providing organized instructions on how to improve the psychological, medical, and social circumstances of street children with concurrent substance use disorders. Due to the special vulnerabilities of these children, customized guidelines are required in order to maximize the treatment outcomes. Systemic review of literature was applied on a large nu...

The Effectiveness of Family-Based Treatment on Attitude towards Substance Use in Female Students with Substance Use Disorder

Objective: Substance abuse and addiction are serious problems in todaychr('39')s world, and high tendency to use substances in adolescents has attracted the attention of researchers and therapists. The aim of present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of family-based treatment on attitude towards substance use in female students with substance use disorder. Method: In this study, a multipl...

Treating Adolescents for Substance Use and Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders

Substance Use Disorders, Comorbidity, and Arrest among Indigenous Adolescents.

Indigenous adolescents are overrepresented at multiple stages of the justice system, but we know very little about the role that mental health, particularly substance use disorder, plays in Indigenous pathways to arrest. This study examined the association between substance use disorder, its comorbidity with other disorders, and arrest using a longitudinal sample of Indigenous youth from the No...