
Strategies are needed to improve adolescent substance abuse treatment outcomes. For example, during outpatient substance abuse treatment, up to 80% of adolescents continue to use. Following residential substance abuse treatment, 88% of adolescents relapse within 6 months. Psychosocial stress plays an important role in the maintenance of substance use and also in relapse. A study…
Where Published: Global Advances Health Med. 2013
Authors: Chris Thurstone, M.D., and Travis Lajoie
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