Adolescent Substance Abuse Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention a
Substance abuse is, and has always been, an indisputable fact of life. People – especially young people – abuse various legal and illegal substances for any number of reasons: to intensify feelings, to achieve deeper consciousness, to escape reality, to s
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Issue in Children’s and Families’ Lives Series Editors: Thomas P. Gullota, Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut, New London, Connecticut Herbert J. Walberg, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Roger P. Weissberg, Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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Carl G. Leukefeld • Thomas P. Gullotta Michele Staton-Tindall Editors
Jessica M. Ramos Research Assistant
Adolescent Substance Abuse Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Treatment
Editors Carl G. Leukefeld Department Behavioral Science Center on Drug & Alcohol Research University of Kentucky Lexington, KY USA
Thomas P. Gullotta Child & Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut, Inc., New London, CT USA
Michele Staton-Tindall College of Medicine Department Behavioral Sciences University of Kentucky Lexington, KY USA
A Sponsored Publication of the Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut, Inc.
ISSN: 1572-1981 ISBN: 978-0-387-09730-5 e-ISBN: 978-0-387-09732-9 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09732-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2008939391 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper springer.com
Preface
This is a book about how some young people use substances to intensify or alter perceptions, feelings, and understandings. On one level, the purpose of this volume is straightforward. Identify and share those practices that appear to be most efficacious. To this end, we asked the respected and talented teams of scholars that worked on this project to identify evidence-based treatment and prevention practices that worked, might work, or did not work. These practices are found clearly in written papers that introduce the reader to the subject area before delving into the details of those treatment and prevention techniques. On another level, the editors of this volume want the reader to appreciate the need to be persistent in youthfocused substance misuse prevention and treatment activities as well as being mindful of changing adolescent needs. To tha
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