y of Pediatrics, 2001).
In addition, this same study reported that the percentage of adolescents who admitted to using various hallucinogens, cocaine and crack cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, methamphetamines, and barbiturates and tranquilizers also increased between 1991 and 1999 (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2001). Epidemiological data reveal that 9 percent of adolescent females and 20 percent of adolescent males meet adult diagnostic criteria for alcohol use disorder. Further, among adolescents and young adults with a substance abuse disorder, 41 percent to
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