Youth Substance Abuse: A Reference Handbook

✍ Scribed by David E. Newton

Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 350
Series: Contemporary World Issues
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This text provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the essential aspects of youth substance abuse―an important contemporary personal, social, and public health issue.

• Presents individual perspectives on youth substance abuse issues that provide readers with a very personal outlook on specific aspects of the topic

• Provides readers with broad coverage of current issues and topics in substance abuse by adolescents as well as a historical perspective of how this problem has developed in the United States over the past century

• Includes a chapter of primary documents sourced from a number of laws and court cases dealing with various aspects of youth substance abuse

✦ Subjects

Self-Help;Abuse;Anger Management;Anxieties & Phobias;Art Therapy & Relaxation;Communication & Social Skills;Creativity;Death & Grief;Dreams;Eating Disorders;Emotions;Handwriting Analysis;Happiness;Hypnosis;Inner Child;Journal Writing;Memory Improvement;Mid-Life;Motivational;Neuro-Linguistic Programming;New Age;Personal Transformation;Relationships;Self-Esteem;Sex;Spiritual;Stress Management;Success;Time Management;Substance Abuse;Addiction & Recovery;Health, Fitness & Dieting;Reference;Social Sc

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