Browsing by Subject "Juvenile Delinquency"
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Do specialty courts achieve better outcomes for children in foster care than general courts?
(Eval Rev, 2013-02)OBJECTIVE: This study assessed the effects of unified family and drug treatment courts (DTCs) on the resolution of cases involving foster care children and the resulting effects on school performance. METHOD: The first analytic ... -
Inhalant use among incarcerated adolescents in the United States: prevalence, characteristics, and correlates of use.
(Drug and alcohol dependence, 2008-03)OBJECTIVE: To characterize patterns and correlates of inhalant use among incarcerated youth. METHOD: Residents (N=723) of 27 Missouri Division of Youth Services facilities completed interviews assessing substance use, psychiatric ... -
Is inhalant use a risk factor for heroin and injection drug use among adolescents in the United States?
(Addictive behaviors, 2007-02)We examined whether inhalant use was associated with heroin and injection drug use (IDU) among adolescents aged 12 to 17 in the United States.Data were drawn from the 2002/2003 administrations of the National Survey on Drug ... -
Non-prescribed use of pain relievers among adolescents in the United States.
(Drug and alcohol dependence, 2008-04)We examined gender-specific prevalences, patterns, and correlates of non-prescribed use of pain relievers - mainly opioids - in a representative sample of American adolescents (N=18,678).Data were drawn from the public use ...
