Pediatrician's Role In Prevention, Identification and Management of Substance Abuse

Main Category: Pediatrics / Children's Health
Article Date: 21 Mar 2005 - 0:00 PDT


Beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s, substance abuse became widespread among adolescents, and more recently, among pre-adolescents.

A revised clinical report from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) entitled, "Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other Drugs: The Role of the Pediatrician in Prevention, Identification, and Management of Substance Abuse" addresses how pediatricians can incorporate substance-abuse prevention into daily practice, acquire the skills necessary to identify young people at risk of substance abuse, and provide or facilitate assessment, intervention and treatment as necessary.

The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 60,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults.

March issue of Pediatrics, the peer-reviewed, scientific journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

American Academy of Pediatrics - Media Release

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