towns, the world of the adolescent is permeated by drugs. When 'a little

harmless experimentation' becomes addiction, parents, teachers, and clinicians

are often at a loss. For this age group (roughly ages 13 to 23), traditional

substance abuse programs simply are not enough" (Nowinski, inside cover).

Today's society provides many challenges for adolescents that our

parents never had to face. Pre-marital sex and pregnancy, alcohol abuse, and

drug addiction have always been around but they have never been more available

to adolescents than they are now. Adolescents are more on their own to take

care of themselves with more and more single parent households. The problem of

drug and alcohol is a major one. Teenagers feel a need to drink and do drugs to

fit in to peer groups. The problem is widespread.

Conduct disorder among adolescent alcohol and drug abusers” and was published in

My fourth source was a journal article written by S. Brown and others.

the articles in the journal section of the library. I found some of the

describes the differential effectiveness of three models of adolescent drug

researching journal and newspaper articles in the WinSpirs databases. I found

Journal of Marital and family Therapy. The article was written by H. Joanning

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