Discuss prevention and treatment of substance abuse and dependence among adolescents.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Health professionals, educators, law enforcement officials, and laypeople have devised many approaches to the prevention and treatment of substance abuse and dependence among adolescents. However, treatment has been a frustrating endeavor, and it is not clear which approaches are most effective. In many cases, adolescents with drug dependence really do not want to discontinue the substances they are abusing. Many are referred to treatment by parents or school systems, but they deny the negative effect of drugs on their lives. Their peer group may frown on prevention or treatment (Lochman et al., 2007). Helping adolescents through withdrawal may be straightforward, but once their bodies no longer require the substance, they may return to the social milieu that fosters abuse (Anderson et al., 2007; Lochman et al., 2007). The ability of teenagers to deal with the physical changes of adolescence and to engage in health promoting behaviors depends in part on their growing cognitive abilities.
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