Update on Adolescent Substance Abuse, An Issue of Adolescent Medicine Clinics

This Update on Adolescent Substance Abuse issue of Adolescent Clinics includes chapters that address important aspects related to advances in diagnosis, co-occurring disorders, cultural differences and closing the gaps on substance abuse and mental health issues. In addition, other chapters review a bio-psychosocial perspective on risk factors, and provide updated epidemiological and clinical reviews of adolescent alcohol use, tobacco prevention and cessation, use and abuse of marijuana, abuse of other drugs and the medical management of overdoses. This issue is primarily directed to health care providers for use as an aid in the recognition and management of this important cause of adolescent mortality and morbidity.