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The Oxford Handbook of Adolescent Substance Abuse (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Adolescent Substance Abuse (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Library of Psychology
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Adolescence is a developmental period marked by dramatic and rapid
biological and social transformation; it is also a time of
increasing rates of experimentation with substance use. This period
and the risk behaviors that often accompany it cannot be fully
understood from the vantage point of any single discipline, nor can
they be described by focusing on only the behavioral and social
problems of the period, the characteristics of normal development,
or the pharmacology and addictive potential of specific drugs.
Instead, a comprehensive approach requires knowledge of the brain's
systems of reward and control, genetics, psychopharmacology,
personality, child development, psychopathology, family dynamics,
peer group relationships, culture, social policy, and more. Drawing
on the expertise of leading researchers from multiple fields, The
Oxford Handbook of Adolescent Substance Abuse provides the most
comprehensive summarization to date of current knowledge about
substance abuse during life's most tumultuous developmental stage.
The Handbook is organized into eight sections covering the
literature on the developmental context of this life period, the
epidemiology of adolescent use and abuse, similarities and
differences in use, addictive potential, and consequences of use
for different drugs; etiology and course as characterized at
different levels of mechanistic analysis ranging from the genetic
and neural to the behavioral and social. Two sections cover the
clinical ramifications of abuse, and prevention and intervention
strategies to most effectively deal with these problems. The last
section addresses the role of social policy in framing the problem
and in addressing it, and explores its potential role in
alleviating it. This volume's authoritative treatment of these
issues and the breadth of its coverage make it suitable as a
compendium of what is currently known; at the same time, its level
of detail provides a reference text and a jumping off place for
researchers already at work in the field.
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