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The adolescent community reinforcement approach (A-CRA) is a behavioral treatment for alcohol and other substance use disorders that helps youth, young adults, and families improve access to interpersonal and environmental reinforcers to reduce or stop substance use.
Research has shown, when drug use begins at an early age, there is a greater possibility for addiction to occur. [14] Three exacerbating factors that can influence substance use to become substance use are social approval, lack of perceived risks, and availability of drugs in the community. Youths from certain demographics are also at higher ...
Adolescent cannabis users are therefore particularly vulnerable to the potential adverse effects of cannabis use. [28] Adolescent cannabis use is associated with increased cannabis misuse as an adult, issues with memory and concentration, long-term cognitive complications, and poor psychiatric outcomes including social anxiety, suicidality, and ...
Faced with mounting concerns around the impact of marijuana use on cognitive development in adolescents, several senators sought to better understand the risks of widespread use and current ...
A 2012 review of cannabis use and dependency in the United States by Danovitch et al said that "42% of persons over age 12 have used cannabis at least once in their lifetime, 11.5% have used within the past year, and 1.8% have met diagnostic criteria for cannabis abuse or dependence within the past year. Among individuals who have ever used ...
Heavy cannabis use could negatively impact certain types of memory, largest study of its kind to date has found. Image credit: Valeria Mongelli/Bloomberg/Getty Images.
It is approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use as an analgesic (pain relief) and anesthetic. It is a medicine that is typically used to treat patients with severe pain, especially ...
While prevalence rates have markedly reduced over the past decade, [4] cannabis is still widely used by young people, and the impacts on adolescent development remain an important issue. The key goals of the Centre are: providing the Australian community with cannabis information resources about cannabis