Justice-involved youth have high rates of alcohol and marijuana use. However, little is
known about what may drive these rates over time. Using a large-scale (N= 1,056; 41.4 …

Background Psychological items discriminating children of fathers diagnosed with an illicit
drug-related substance use disorder and normal controls are indicators of a unidimensional …

Objective This prospective study determined whether temperament before two years of age
predicts transmissible risk for substance use disorder (SUD) up to a decade later and SUD …

Addiction, examined in this chapter within a lifespan developmental psychology framework,
is posited to consist of two main variants: Ontogenetic addiction ensues from non-normative …

Black Americans tend to report overall lower rates of substance use and substance use
disorder (SUD). This chapter begins with the finding that national rates of SUDs for African …

AIMS: A brief screen requiring 3–4min administration time was developed to detect
adolescents qualifying for current substance use disorder (SUD) and those who will …

Rapidly occurring changes in law enforcement and licensing of retail outlets to sell
marijuana raises the prospect that the population of consumers will expand and accordingly …

young people's requirements for assessment, treatment and other interventions because of
their misuse of substances. It highlights approaches that enhance understanding of the …

Background: People who identify as LGBTQ experience elevated rates of minority stress,
which has been linked to higher rates of substance use. Unfortunately, most extant research …

Substance use disorder (SUD) in adolescents typically is preceded by and co-occurs with
other psychiatric disorders. The large number of disorders in DSM-5 (American Psychiatric …