Association of Educational Attainment and Adolescent Substance Use Disorder in a Clinical Sample

Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 169-176

  Apantaku Olajide, Tunde ^a,b   James, Philip D ^c   Smyth, Bobby P ^d  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SAINT JOHN REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c Youth Drug and Alcohol (YoDA) Service   (Ireland)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

adolescent; educational attainment; school dropout; substance use

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898476803     PISSN: 1067828X     EISSN: 15470652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1067828X.2013.786921     Document Type: Article

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