Background Findings from systematic reviews and meta-analyses about the effectiveness of
school-based programmes to prevent or reduce substance abuse are inconclusive. We …

Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and
Possibilities Page 1 Committee on the Prevention of Mental Disorders and Substance Abuse …

Purpose Evaluate changes in early adolescent substance use during the coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic using a prospective, longitudinal, nationwide cohort …

Research emanating from the field of developmental science indicates that initial risk factors
for alcohol use and disorder can be evident in early childhood. One dominant …

This article updates the evidence base on outpatient behavioral treatments for adolescent
substance use (ASU) since publication of the previous review completed for this journal by …

Objective: During adolescence, neurobiological maturation occurs concurrently with social
and interpersonal changes, including the initiation of alcohol and other substance use. The …

Four decades of research on resilience in young people provide compelling data and
models for applications in the school context. Resilience theory and findings are highly …

Research on substance use disorders is often compartmentalized, focused on
understanding addiction to one substance or substance class at a time. Although this …

While prevalence rates for alcohol use and related disorders differ widely between adult
men and women, male and female adolescents do not exhibit the same disparity in alcohol …

The literature is equivocal regarding the role of internalizing problems in the etiology of
adolescent substance use. In this study, we examined the association of internalizing and …