[19] Vermeulen - Smit, E., Vendurmen, J. E. E., and Engels, R. C. M. E. «The effectiveness of family interventions in preventing
adolescent illicit drug use: A systematic review and meta - analysis of randomized controlled trials.»
Not exact matches
• For white
adolescent males in America, non-resident father involvement was found to buffer the negative effects of living in a lone - mother family on delinquency, heavy drinking and
illicit drug use (Thomas et al, 1996).
According to a study published online Monday in Annals of Emergency Medicine, dating violence among
adolescents was also strongly associated with alcohol,
illicit drug use and depression.
One year after treatment, these
adolescents showed significant declines in alcohol, marijuana, and other
illicit drug use, as well as reductions in criminal activity and other deviant behavior.
Relationships between circumstances surrounding
illicit drug use and escalation of
drug use: Moderating effects of gender and early
adolescent experiences.
To determine whether universal school - based interventions designed to enhance resilience are efficacious relative to a comparison group in reducing the extent of
adolescent tobacco, alcohol or
illicit drug use.
Buamrind asserts that in today's climate of social instability, with both parents working, a high divorce rate and easily assessable
illicit drugs,
adolescents function best when parents use an authoritative parenting style that is more demanding, yet sensitive to their child's need for autonomy.
Despite this associative evidence, to the authors» knowledge, existing systematic reviews assessing the effectiveness of school - based substance use interventions have not reported the effectiveness of universal resilience - based interventions on
adolescent substance use.4 — 6, 37 Three existing Cochrane reviews have individually examined the efficacy of school - based tobacco, alcohol and
illicit drug use programmes.4 — 6 Such reviews have not reported outcomes for universal resilience - based interventions specifically, but have included such interventions in broader categories of intervention type for subgroup analysis.
Previous studies suggested that early childhood trauma can lead to an array of negative health outcomes and behaviors, including substance abuse, among both
adolescents and adults.22 — 25 For example, childhood physical and sexual abuse has been shown to be associated with illegal
drug use.26 — 28 Although these studies provide evidence that most substance abusers come from abusive homes, many of these studies have taken a «categorical» approach to examine the relationship between 1 or 2 forms of these childhood exposures and subsequent
drug abuse; few studies have examined
illicit drug use and abuse in relation to multiple disturbing or stressful childhood exposures.
This systematic review will be the first internationally to examine the effectiveness of universal school - based resilience interventions in reducing the prevalence of
adolescent tobacco, alcohol and
illicit drug use.
Thus,
illicit drug use may serve as an avenue to escape or dissociate from the immediate emotional pain, anxiety, and anger that likely accompany such experiences.46, 47 The current findings are supported by previous studies that have reported associations between forms of childhood abuse and substance abuse in
adolescents.46, 48,49 The adverse developmental and emotional impact of these interrelated childhood experiences, combined with behaviors inherent among this age group, 19 — 21 all may contribute to the especially strong graded relationship that we found in this age group.
Childhood Trauma and
Illicit Drug Use in Adolescence: A Population - Based National Comorbidity Survey Replication —
Adolescent Supplement Study Journal of the American Academy of Child &
Adolescent Psychiatry Published online: May 27 2016
It should however be noted that our measure of substance use mainly reflected alcohol use insofar as only few
adolescents used
illicit drugs or smoked and, given that we examined a normal population sample, approximately 50 % of the sample did not report any substance use at all.
Most
adolescents with CD misuse alcohol and / or
illicit drugs (Armstrong and Costello 2002).
Systematic review of universal school - based resilience interventions targeting
adolescent tobacco, alcohol or
illicit drug use: review protocol
In prior work we used a longitudinal design to test whether the interaction between internalizing and externalizing symptoms in early adolescence (11 — 12 years old) predicted
adolescent alcohol and
drug use (a composite of cigarette, marijuana, and other
illicit SU) 2 years later (Scalco et al. 2014).
Despite the fact that Hispanic (eighth grade)
adolescents have the highest lifetime
drug - use prevalence rates across all major
illicit drugs (except amphetamines)(Johnston, O'Malley, Bachman, & Schulenberg, 2005), and Hispanic high school students have the highest rates of unprotected sex at last intercourse (CDC - P, 2004b) compared to African American and non-Hispanic Whites, research on the efficacy of
drug abuse and HIV prevention programs for Hispanics is lacking (González - Castro et al., 2003).