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Adolescent Substance Abuse
Research and Clinical Advances
Adolescent drug abuse is one of the most challenging disorders to treat. It impacts on schools,
community-based programs, mental health and medical facilities, and juvenile justice settings.
This book provides practitioners, program developers, and policy makers with the most up-to-
date and practical information for improving outcomes in adolescent substance abuse. The
authors cover a range of issues, including empirically based treatment development protocols,
how to incorporate innovative treatment models into diverse clinical settings, research
advances, interventions with special populations, culturally based intervention guidelines, and
recommendations for practice and policy.
Pre-public
ation comments on this book
There are some books that you wish you had the time to read and there are others that you
simply make the time to read. This edited collection fromHoward Liddle and Cynthia Rowe is of
the ‘‘make-time-to-read’’ variety. Over the last few years many countries have witnessed a steady
increase in adolescent drug abuse and are now looking to develop services that can meet the
needs of these young people and their families. Liddle and Rowe have drawn on their own
experience, over many years, to bring together some of the world’s leading researchers and
therapists in the field of adolescent drug abuse treatment. These authors were asked to set out the
key achievements and future challenges in their field. The result is a book that will be an
invaluable resource to all of those planning, researching and working in adolescent drug
abuse treatment services for years to come.
Neil McKeganey
Professor of Drug Misuse Research
University of Glasgow
A hallmark of health services in the last decade has been the discovery that adolescence is
different from adulthood, and that the methods to identify, treat, and prevent illness need to be
different. Nowhere has this been more evident than in the substance abuse field. This book is
evidence that this discovery has taken place and that the emergent field of adolescent substance
abuse treatment is alive and well. It offers a comprehensive set of research-based summaries
from the leaders in this area that needs to be read and thought about by anyone treating
substance-abusing adolescents. It should also be extraordinarily useful for those involved in
policy making.
Robert A. Zucker, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and Psychology
Director, Substance Abuse Section, Department of Psychiatry,
Director, Addiction Research Center
University of Michigan
This monograph sits at the nexus of sophisticated research and statistical techniques, clinical
practice and funding-policy addressing the challenging public health issues of adolescent
substance use and sexual risk-taking. Many of the complex matters that make adolescent
substance use an exemplar of the challenges and complexities that face those working with
substance-use disorders in general, are taken up by the specialist researchers brought together in
this book. It will be invaluable to all in the field as it not only offers scholarly literature reviews
and discussions of developments in statistical and clinical practice and health service delivery,
but the editors provide clear and reasonable suggestions in a call to action to promote the linkage
of research and practice in adolescent substance use research, service delivery and policy
development.
Dr. Jan Copeland
Senior Lecturer
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
School of Community Medicine and Public Health
University of South Wales
As substance misuse becomes increasingly prevalent in society, and particularly among the young,
there is a need for authoritative evidence-based guidance on policy and treatment. Drs Liddle
and Rowe have provided the most comprehensive and timely review of the evidence base for
treatment of adolescent substance abuse currently available. This will be of considerable value to
clinicians, researchers and policy makers in this field as a state-of-the-art review of what is
currently known, as well as identifying key gaps in knowledge and areas for future research. The
assembled chapters will provide much needed impetus for the development of best practice in
this field and stimulate rational service development internationally.
Professor Colin Drummond
St George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London
Adolescent Substance
Abuse
Research and Clinical Advances
Edited by
Howard A. Liddle
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Miami, USA
Cynthia L. Rowe
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Miami, USA
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