Brief Intervention Impact on Truant Youths’ Marijuana Use: Eighteen-Month Follow-Up

Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 18-32

  Dembo, Richard ^a   Briones Robinson, Rhissa ^a   Schmeidler, James ^b   Wareham, Jennifer ^c   Ungaro, Rocío ^a   Winters, Ken C ^d   Karas, Lora ^e   Wothke, Werner ^f   Belenko, Steven ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e American Councils for International Education ^*  (United States)

^f American Councils for International Education   (United States)

^g TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

marijuana use; risk behaviors; truancy; youth drug use brief intervention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84933060450     PISSN: 1067828X     EISSN: 15470652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1067828X.2013.872068     Document Type: Article

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