Topics featured in the book include:

• The effect of family and caregiver situations on adolescent substance abuse.
• A biological/genetic perspective on adolescent substance abuse.
• School-based preventions and the evolution of evidence-based strategies.
• The role of adolescent self-help in substance abuse interventions.
• Community-based interventions to reduce alcohol use and misuse.

Adolescent Substance Abuse, Second Edition, is a must-have reference for researchers, clinicians/practitioners, and graduate students in the fields of child and school psychology, social work, public health, developmental psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, and various interrelated mental health and social policy arenas.