Adolescent drug use

Substance Use Among Adolescents: Risk and Protective Factors

Video and audio recordings

3 December 2021

On December 2nd, CICAD's Demand Reduction Unit organised an online event on "Substance Use Among Adolescents: Risk and Protective Factors". The event is part of a series of international dialogues between Africa, Asia, Latin America and the...

Strategies Needed to Prevent Diversion of Prescription Opioids to Youth

Scientific article

5 November 2019

Despite the well-documented detrimental effects of opioid abuse, misuse of prescription opioids remains high among adolescents and young adults in the U.S. While measures have been implemented to prevent prescription opioid diversion, such...

Cannabis and Adolescence: From Science to Clinical Practice

26 November 2019

Dublin

Join the Department of Public Health & Primary Care for an open lecture "Cannabis and Adolescence: From Science to Clinical Practice" at Trinity College Institute of Population Health, Tallaght. The lecture will include perspectives from neuroscience and clinical practice.

Speakers include:

Dr. Hugh Garavan, PhD- Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont.

Differential Intervention Effectiveness of a Universal School-Based Resilience Intervention in Reducing Adolescent Substance Use within Student Subgroups

Scientific article

29 August 2018

Abstract Objectives: Interventions addressing the individual and environmental protective factors of adolescents are suggested to have potential for reducing adolescent substance use. While universally delivered school-based substance use...

State Prevalence and Ranks of Adolescent Substance Use

Scientific article

31 May 2018

Abstract Introduction This study statistically ranked states’ performance on adolescent substance use related to cancer risk (past-month cigarette smoking, binge alcohol drinking, and marijuana use). Methods Data came from 69,200 adolescent...

A Mobile Phone-Based Life Skills Training Program for Substance Use Prevention Among Adolescents

Scientific article

4 October 2017

Researchers from universities in Germany and Switzerland have explored the use of m-health in substance use prevention in adolescents. Through the implementation of a fully-automated programme, ready4life, generic life skills training can...