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Report: To reduce teen substance use, create resilience and treat mental illness
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30095
Subject(s) - substance use , substance misuse , mental illness , resilience (materials science) , mental health , task (project management) , psychiatry , psychology , psychological resilience , substance abuse , medicine , psychotherapist , engineering , physics , systems engineering , thermodynamics
Trust for America's Health, an advocacy organization, issued a report in late November focusing on how to reduce teen substance misuse. The task involves a lot more than prevention, although that is the first and best solution. For teens who are at risk, the problems may have started early in childhood, and addressing those factors, such as trauma, can prevent future substance use.