Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Use
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Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Use
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The journal is a peer-reviewed, hybrid open-access, interdisciplinary forum on the assessment, prevention, and treatment of child and adolescent substance use #addictionmedicine #adolescentmedicine
"The results extend current knowledge by highlighting differences in the ways boys and girls cope with negative affect and suggest that their motivations to use drugs or alcohol may be distinct, or that the effects of use may vary by sex."
June 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Read more about this critical topic in adolescent health: "Drug Overdose Deaths in Adolescents and Young Adults in Arizona, 2018–2022" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Drug Overdose Deaths in Adolescents and Young Adults in Arizona, 2018–2022
Some of the highest youth drug mortality rates have been recorded in the US southwest state of Arizona. In this descriptive report, we analyzed death certificate data from 1,584 Arizona residents a...
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May 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
"In both adolescent and young adult overdose deaths, synthetic opioids such as fentanyl were implicated in more than 3 of 4 four deaths."
May 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
"This is what almost everybody uses. So my thought was, if every other person can use it, why can’t I? experience it, too? ……. You have to get involved in it because almost everybody does it"(2/2).
February 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
From one participant interview: “It’s being portrayed as being used by almost everybody. Both young and old. Especially those influencers on social media such as musicians, actors, and actresses. People that are very popular" (1/2)
February 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM