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Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment: A Review of Evidence-Based Research

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Adolescent Substance Abuse

Part of the book series: Issues in Children's and Families' Lives ((IICL))

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Significant progress has been made since 1990 in the development and evaluation of treatments for adolescent drug abuse. This body of research reflects a greater focus on varying interventions using different theory-based psychotherapies, as well as a recognition of the unique developmental milestones specific to adolescents. Several modalities and approaches meet standards of evidence-based treatments, and that, in general, they are comparable in terms of outcomes.

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This work was supported in part by grants DA015347 (Winters) and DA029785 (Finch) from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

We gratefully acknowledge the contribution of Tamara Fahnhorst and Rachel Koskey to the prior version of this chapter.

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Winters, K.C. et al. (2018). Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment: A Review of Evidence-Based Research. In: Leukefeld, C., Gullotta, T. (eds) Adolescent Substance Abuse. Issues in Children's and Families' Lives. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90611-9_5

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