Purpose: To examine the role of family environment and peer networks in abstinence
outcomes for adolescents 1 year after intake to alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment …

Objective: Social context plays a critical role in youth cannabis use. Yet few studies have
examined if and when social contexts shift during cannabis use treatment. This study …

Social recovery capital (SRC) is the combination of social resources that can be used to
initiate and sustain addiction recovery through friends, family, and peers. Broadly …

In existing recovery studies, binary distinctions between 'spoiled'identities defined by drug-
related practices and relationships on the one side, and 'un-spoiled'drug-free identities on …

The aim of the current study is to explore the mechanism by which deviant peer affiliation
affects substance abusers' substance abstention motivation and the mediating role of …

This exploratory study aimed to measure antisocial tendencies and friendship quality of
adolescents in residential substance abuse treatment and to compare the findings to the …

The objective of this research is to use item response theory (IRT) to validate a 14-item peer
relations scale for use in the adolescent treatment population. Subjects are 509 adolescents …

Only 7.6% of adolescents in need of substance abuse treatment actually receive it. Many
adolescents are hesitant to seek treatment due to public stigma (ie, negative attitudes and …

Background The literature indicates that peer relations are an important aspect of the
treatment and recovery of adolescents with substance use disorder (SUD). Unfortunately, no …

This study examined barriers to substance abuse treatment through focus group interviews
of African American youth in three rural, eastern Arkansas counties in the Mississippi Delta …