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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 31, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAdolescence is a time of marked change in any individual's life, and many young people struggle during this period and develop psychosocial problems such as depression and anxiety. Many young people also experiment with...
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From:Contemporary Drug Problems (Vol. 20, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedEfforts by the Ontario government wine and spirits store system to reduce sales to minors and to intoxicated customers are described....
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From:The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (Vol. 64, Issue 2)Many sectors have become alarmed at the escalating level of violence, alcohol abuse and other problems at the University of Washington. Authorities decided to take action after a 1992 incident where football players and...
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From:Primary Health Care (Vol. 22, Issue 5)Abstract This article is a synopsis of a presentation given at the Queen's Nursing Institute conference on substance misuse. The presentation focused on how health visitors can assess risk, and limit the harm to...
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From:Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Vol. 60, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedObjective: Since adolescents are a high-risk group for alcohol-related problems, this study was undertaken to gain insight into the prevalence of alcohol consumption among this population. Method: This study was carried...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 10, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction and Aims Parental alcohol-related practices are important risk factors of adolescent drinking, but little is known about the factors associated with these parental pro-drinking practices (PPDPs). We...
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From:Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (Vol. 71, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjective: Given the public health impact of adolescent alcohol use and heavy episodic drinking, we sought to identify the prevalence of types of alcohol use among national samples of 8th- and 10th-grade American...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 29, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedNo previous study has looked at the relationship between social anxiety (SA) and alcohol use among young people, despite the 'high prevalence of adolescent SA, and the fact that alcohol use typically begins in...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 27, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhen it comes to sexual activity and drug and alcohol use, today's American high school students are taking fewer risks than their counterparts in the 1990s did, according to research conducted by the US Centres for...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 53, Issue 16)SUPERFUND AGREEMENT: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed an agreement that would allow the University of Portland to acquire land on a Superfund site without the risk of being sued to clean up the...
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From:Addiction Professional (Vol. 2, Issue 3)Successfully engaging chemically dependent adolescents in the treatment process poses a challenge for most counselors. Typically adolescents are not happy to be in a counselor's office and have not voluntarily made the...
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From:Practice NurseA national survey of secondary schoolchildren aged 11-15 years published by the Department of Health has found that 12% had used drugs in the previous month and 20% had used drugs in the past year. Ten per cent were...
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From:Adolescence (Vol. 37, Issue 148) Peer-ReviewedItem content of the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST) was modified to make it more appropriate for young persons. The resulting test was found to have lower internal consistency than the adult MAST, but the...
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From:Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Vol. 61, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjective: This study describes the use of alcohol home delivery services by underage drinkers, and characteristics of grocery and liquor stores that deliver alcohol. The availability of alcohol home delivery services...
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From:Journal of School Health (Vol. 59, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedStudent Alcohol Use and Perceived Problems with Peers and Adults ABSTRACT: The authors examined the relationship between students' use of alcohol and the problems they experience with friends their own age and with...
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From:Contemporary Pediatrics (Vol. 29, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedInvestigators used 2000-2007 data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health to compare the screening value of 3 questions posed to 166,000 teens aged 12 to 18 years about their alcohol consumption for identifying...
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From:Journal of Alcohol & Drug Education (Vol. 62, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe prospective associations between negative life events (NLEs) and adolescent alcohol use was examined using the Youth Asset Study. Participants (n=1040 adolescents, mean age = 15.8 years) completed annual interviews...
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From:Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Vol. 67, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedObjective: This study examines the familial transmission of alcohol abuse and dependence to adolescents. Method: Male adolescents recruited from a treatment program for substance problems, matched controls, and all...
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From:Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Vol. 67, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedObjective: Harmful alcohol consumption is a leading cause of death in the United States. The majority of people who die from alcohol use begin drinking in their youth. In this study, we estimate the impact of...
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From:Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Vol. 64, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedObjective: Alcohol involvement, dysphoria, and their combined effects, may have long-term psychosocial consequences. However, because of weaknesses in existing literature, the exact relationships are unclear, as are the...