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On the basis of the literature, the following risk factors for drug abuse by adolescents were identified: biological predisposition to drug abuse; personality traits that reflect a lack of social bonding; a history of low quality and consistency of family management, family communication, family rela...
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Adolescent drug addiction and alcohol abuse are on the rise in this country. Teenagers of all races, socioeconomic groups and both genders have become avid experimenters with a full spectrum of substances, including alcohol, marijuana, stimulants, cocaine and hallucinogens. A diagnosis of addiction ...
entered into a multiple logistic regression model testing the added risk contributed by physical abuse to adolescent psychopathology.Physical abuse added significantly to other risk factors in accounting for lifetime diagnoses of major depression, dysthymia, conduct disorder, drug abuse, and cigarette ...
Factors associated with adolescent substance abuse include rebelliousness, relative indifference to school, tolerance for social deviance, family disruption, parental tolerance of alcohol or other drug use, and early onset of drug use. One major problem for teenagers is that the diagnosis and treatment...
Childhood risk factors for adolescent drug and alcohol abuse are reviewed. Childhood personality manifesting the "difficult child" syndrome and psychopathological features of hyperactivity and antisocial traits are predictive of later substance abuse, especially when these traits persist into adolescence. Key...
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Role of the Funder/Sponsor: The National Institute on Drug Abuse had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Data...
We conclude that the causal factors behind the great decline in adolescent risk behaviours are multiple. While broad contextual changes appear to have reduced the opportunities for risk behaviours in general, behaviour-specific factors have also played an important role in smoking and drinking declines...