Rather than thinking that adolescence ends at 18, groundbreaking brain research has shown that critical brain developmental ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Alcohol was the most frequently initiated substance in youths by age 12 years. Religion was the strongest ...

New research shows that SBIRT — screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment for drug misuse — is effective at preventing substance use in adolescents in a variety of clinical settings. In ...

Adolescent substance use—the consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and other harmful drugs—remains a persistent global problem and has presented ongoing challenges for public health authorities and society ...

Adolescent substance use is a significant predictor of future addiction and related disorders. Understanding neural mechanisms underlying substance use initiation and frequency during adolescence is ...

NEW YORK CITY -- Sociodemographic factors such as religion and race were the most robust predictors of substance use initiation in early adolescence, according to an ...

The cannabis marketplace continues to grow and evolve, offering consumers new ways to use cannabis—and new ways to combine it ...

Researchers have long studied the impact of alcohol use on adolescents. But medical treatment for Latinx, LGBTQ+ youth struggling with substance abuse has been insufficient, according to Robert ...

Nearly 49 million people in the US ages 12 and older – more than 1 in 6 – had a substance use disorder in 2022, according to survey data released Monday by the US Department of Health and Human ...

High levels of neighborhood violence increase the risk of Latino and African American teens in Denver starting to use alcohol ...