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Adolescent Drug Abuse - Term Papers

Adolescent Drug Abuse

I.) Introduction:
"Crack, booze, pot, crystal- from the inner city to the suburbs to small
towns, the world of the adolescent is permeated by drugs. When 'a little
harmless experimentation' becomes addiction, parents, teachers, and clinicians
are often at a loss. For this age group (roughly ages 13 to 23), traditional
substance abuse programs simply are not enough" (Nowinski, inside cover).
Today's society provides many challenges for adolescents that our
parents never had to face. Pre-marital sex and pregnancy, alcohol abuse, and
drug addiction have always been around but they have never been more available
to adolescents than they are now. Adolescents are more on their own to ...

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problem at its beginnings, the adolescents. If we sit
here and deny the fact that the problem is there then we are just setting
ourselves up for disaster.

II.) Review of Literature:
A Source 1:
The first piece of literature that I used was a book written by Dr.
Joseph Nowinski entitled Substance Abuse in Adolescents & Young Adults. It was
written at the Elmcrest Psychiatric Institute in 1990. The book described Dr.
Nowinski's study of adolescent addicts of drugs and alcohol. It goes on to
explain the need for the development of treatment plans for adolescents because
conventional plans do not work on this age group.
B) Source 2:
The second source that I used was a journal article entitled “Prevalence
of substance abuse in a rural teenage population.” It was written by Wade
Silverman. This article was published in The Journal of Adolescent Chemical
Dependency in 1991. This article presented the results of a survey done in a
rural school system to assess the ...

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Added: 7/1/2007 02:01:19 PM
Category: Legal Issues
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