Adolescent Substance Abuse

Jerome Beker, Richard Isralowitz, Mark Singer

• Contents Introduction: Understanding Adolescent Substance AbuseSubstance Abuse and Social Deviance: A Youth Assessment Framework Childhood: Setting the Stage for Addiction Influences on Adolescent Problem Behavior: Causes, Connections, and Contexts Reducing Black Adolescents’ Drug Use: Family Revisited Hispanic Adolescents and Substance Abuse: Issues for the 1980s Psychotropic and General Drug Use by Mentally Retarded Persons: A Test of the Status Model of Drug Use Conceptual and Clinical Issues in the Treatment of Adolescent Alcohol and Substance Misusers