Objective: Binge drinking (also called heavy episodic drinking, risky single-occasion
drinking etc.) is a major public health problem. This paper provides an overview of recently …

Binge drinking, commonly defined as consuming five or more standard drinks per occasion
for men and four or more drinks for women, typically begins in adolescence. Adolescents …

Positive relationships with family, friends and school staff are consistently linked with health
and wellbeing during adolescence, though fewer studies explore how these micro-systems …

Substance use trajectories were examined from early adolescence to young adulthood
among a diverse sample of 998 youths. Analysis of longitudinal data from ages 12 to 24 …

Over the past 20 years, resilience theory has attracted great attention from both researchers
and mental health practitioners. Resilience is defined as a process of overcoming the …

In recent years, trajectory approaches to characterizing individual differences in the onset
and course of substance involvement have gained popularity. Previous studies have …

Associating with substance using peers is generally considered as one of the most important
predictors of adolescent substance use. However, peer association does not affect all …

Marijuana is the most prevalent illicit drug used by adolescents and young adults, yet
marijuana initiation is rarely studied past adolescence. The present study sought to advance …

This study examined age, gender, and racial differences in parental and peer disapproval of
alcohol use and in the relationship of these injunctive norms with drinking during …

Substance use often begins earlier among American Indians compared to the rest of the
United States, a troubling reality that puts Native youth at risk for escalating and problematic …