Prevention for Substance Abuse

Prevention for Substance Abuse

Introduction

Research has identified a variety of factors that put individuals at risk for substance use and abuse. These risk factors do not exist solely at the individual level but rather occur across multiple domains. Much of this research has focused on youths, given the strong association between adolescent substance use and delinquency, and the negative impacts of these problem behaviors and risk factors for both substance abuse and delinquency that exist across community, family, school, and individual levels. At the community level, risk factors for substance use and delinquency include the presence of attitudes favorable ...