Handbook of child and adolescent drug and substance abuse : pharmacological, developmental, and clinical considerations
More than 90 percent of adults with current substance use disorders started using before age 18, engaging in behaviors that affect healthy neurological and psychological development. This handbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the nature and extent of substance use by children and...
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley and Sons ,
c2012
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The psychodepressants
- 2. The psychostimulants
- 3. The psychodelics
- 4. Explaining child and adolescent use of the drugs and substances of abuse
- 5. Exposure to the drugs and substances of abuse from conception through childhood
- 6. Effects of the drugs and substances of abuse on learning and memory during childhood and adolescence
- 7. Detecting adolescent use of the drugs and substances of abuse : selected quick-screen psychometric tests
- 8. Dual diagnosis among adolescents
- 9. Preventing and treating child and adolescent use of drugs and substances of abuse