The Identification of Adolescent Substance Abuse by Health Care Professionals
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of the Addictions
- Vol. 21 (2) , 247-254
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10826088609063453
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the frequency with which health care professionals identify alcohol and drug problems in an adolescent clinic population. The results indicated that the health care professionals were apt to judge far fewer adolescents as having an alcohol/drug problem than as having other problems common to this age group. Furthermore, adjusted citywide prevalence rates of adolescent alcohol abuse (12.7%) exceeded health care professional''s judgments (3.0%) by over fourfold.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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