Oxford Handbook of Adolescent Substance Abuse

Name: Oxford Handbook of Adolescent Substance Abuse
Brand: OXFORD UNIV PR
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By Zucker, Robert A.

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Adolescent substance abuse is the nation's #1 public health problem. It originates out of a developmental era where experimentation with the world is increasingly taking place, and where major changes in physical self and social relationships are taking place. These changes cannot be understood by any one discipline nor can they be described by focusing only on the behavioral and social problems of this age period, the characteristics of normal development, or the pharmacology and addictive potential of specific drugs. They require knowledge of the brain's systems of reward and control, genetics, psychopharmacology, personality, child development, psychopathology, family dynamics, peer group relationships, culture, social policy, and more. Drawing on the expertise of the leading researchers in this field, this Handbook provides the most comprehensive summarization of current knowledge about adolescent substance abuse. The Handbook is organized into eight sections covering the literature on the developmental context of this life period, the epidemiology of adolescent use and abuse, similarities and differences in use, addictive potential, and consequences of use for different drugs; etiology and course as characterized at different levels of mechanistic analysis ranging from the genetic and neural to the behavioural and social. Two sections cover the clinical ramifications of abuse, and prevention and intervention strategies to most effectively deal with these problems. The Handbook's last section addresses the role of social policy in framing the problem, in addressing it, and explores its potential role in alleviating it.

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Number of Pages:: 854
Release Date:: 2019-08-29
Publication Date:: 2019-08-29
Publisher:: OXFORD UNIV PR
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0199735662
ISBN13:: 9780199735662
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 1769 g
Height:: 183 cm
Width:: 260 cm
Thickness:: 50 cm

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