| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 257 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
An overview of issues / Jan Howard, Gayle M. Boyd, and Robert A. Zucker -- Family influences on alcohol abuse and other problem behaviors among Black and white adolescents in a general population sample / Grace M. Barnes, Michael P. Farrell, and Sarbani Banerjee -- Disentangling the effects of parental drinking, family management, and parental alcohol norms on current drinking by Black and white adolescents / Peggy L. Peterson [and others] -- Adolescent alcohol decisions / Baruch Fischhoff and Marilyn Jacobs Quadrel -- Alcohol expectancy theory and the identification of high-risk adolescents / Gregory T. Smith and Mark S. Goldman -- The path to alcohol problems through conduct problems : a family-based approach to very early intervention with risk / Eugene Maguin, Robert A. Zucker, and Hiram E. Fitzgerald -- School-based research on the prevention of adolescent alcohol use and misuse : methodological issues and advances / T.E. Dielman -- Preventing alcohol abuse in college students : a harm-reduction approach / G. Alan Marlatt, John S. Baer, and Mary Larimer -- Parental participation in drug abuse prevention : results from the Midwestern Prevention Project / Louise Ann Rohrabach [and others] -- Community strategies for the reduction of youth drinking : theory and application / Alexander C. Wagenaar and Cheryl L. Perry -- Effects of alcohol price policy on youth : a summary of economic research / Michael Grossman [and others] |
| Summary |
Alcohol misuse presents a major risk for health and well-being throughout the life-span, but youth have a special vulnerability. Alcohol is the most widely used drug by adolescents. For some, this may be one or two isolated occasions of youthful experimentation; for others, the use becomes excessive, placing them in danger of immediate adverse consequences such as accidental injury and alcohol poisoning, or encouraging other high-risk behavior patterns including unprotected sex. Moreover, a pattern of heavy drinking established in adolescence and young adulthood may continue into an adult patt |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Teenagers -- Alcohol use -- United States
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Alcoholism -- United States -- Prevention
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages.
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Alcohol Drinking
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Adolescent
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Adolescent Behavior
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Alcoholism -- prevention & control
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SELF-HELP -- Substance Abuse & Addictions -- Alcoholism.
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages
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Alcoholism -- Prevention
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Teenagers -- Alcohol use
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| SUBJECT |
United States |
| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Boyd, Gayle M
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Howard, Jan
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Zucker, Robert A
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| ISBN |
9781134793662 |
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1134793669 |
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9780203774144 |
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0203774140 |
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9781134793808 |
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1134793804 |
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9781134793730 |
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1134793731 |
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9781138966468 |
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1138966460 |
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