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Fewer than 4% of high school seniors abused prescription opioids in the early 1990s. By 2002, between 8% and 10% of 12th graders were abusing prescription opioids. The ominous numbers [...]

Community-based treatment programs for adolescents reduced drug and alcohol use, improved school performance, and reduced involvement with the criminal justice system in the first large-scale study designed to evaluate drug [...]

Almost 2 million young people aged 12-17 years need treatment for substance abuse or dependence, but only 1 in 10 will get it, according to a report from the Robert [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Substance-dependent youths who started smoking marijuana in their preteen years entered treatment with greater impairments than did those who started using marijuana as teenagers in a study [...]

BOSTON -- Fluoxetine is not an effective treatment for depression in adolescents with comorbid substance-related disorders, suggest results of a placebo-controlled trial presented at the annual meeting of the American [...]

BETHESDA, MD. -- Very little published evidence exists to back treatments for adolescents with opioid abuse or dependence. In addition, those adolescents appear to have characteristics that differ from those [...]

BETHESDA, MD. -- Little published evidence supports treatments for adolescents with opioid abuse or dependence, Dr. Geetha Subramaniam reported at the annual conference of the Association for Medical Education and [...]

Adolescents in a substance abuse recovery facility gained an average of 11 pounds during the first 60 days of their stay, said Candace C. Hodgkins, who is a doctoral candidate [...]

WASHINGTON -- A new guide to adolescent drug programs lists 144 treatment centers nationwide where teens with substance abuse problems can go for help. The guide was created by Drug [...]