Adolescent pharmacology: A pertinent issue of medicine as opposed to medicines

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 639-644

  Kearns, G L ^a,b,c   Spaulding Barclay, M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; ILLICIT DRUG; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ADOLESCENT HEALTH; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BODY SIZE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY; COMORBIDITY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DISPOSITION; DRUG USE; DYSTHYMIA; EDITORIAL; ENTERITIS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT MORTALITY; INFECTION RISK; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MENTAL DISEASE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIGRATION; MOOD DISORDER; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUTRITION; OBESITY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; POVERTY; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBERTY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SIDE EFFECT; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL MEDICINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PHARMACOLOGY, CLINICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK-TAKING;

EID: 56549103957     PISSN: 00099236     EISSN: 15326535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/clpt.2008.206     Document Type: Editorial

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