Developing a Web-Based Intervention to Prevent Drug Use Among Adolescent Girls

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 8-13

  Schwinn, Traci Marie ^a   Hopkins, Jessica Elizabeth ^a   Schinke, Steven Paul ^a  

^a Columbia University School of Social Work ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

adolescent; drug use; gender specific; prevention; web based

Indexed keywords

EID: 84950317919     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: 15527581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731515579204     Document Type: Article

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