By offering unique analysis and synthesis of theory, empirical research, and clinical guidance in an up-to-date and unbiased context, this book assists health and social care professionals in understanding the use of drugs and substances of abuse by children and adolescents. A comprehensive reference for health and social care professionals, the book identifies and corrects related false narratives and, with the use of the authors’ combined experience of over 70 years of clinical and academic experience in drug and substance abuse, provides current pharmacotherapeutic and psychotherapeutic approaches for the treatment of alcohol or other dependence or use disorders among children and adolescents. The book also provides a useful reference for identifying brand/trade and street names of the drugs and substances of abuse commonly used by children and adolescents. Also included is a comprehensive, cross-referenced subject index. Clear, comprehensive, accessible, and fully referenced, this book will be an invaluable resource for professionals and students who aim to treat children and adolescents. Child and Adolescent Drug and Substance Abuse is the 19th clinical pharmacology and therapeutic text that the Pagliaros have written over the past 40 years and is the sixth that deals exclusively with drug and substance abuse.Additional ISBNs9781138542143, 9781351009485Child and Adolescent Drug and Substance Abuse: A Comprehensive Reference Guide 1st Edition is written by Louis A. Pagliaro; Ann Marie Pagliaro and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Child and Adolescent Drug and Substance Abuse are 9781351009461, 135100946X and the print ISBNs are 9781138542150, 1138542156. Additional ISBNs include 9781138542143, 9781351009485.