Adolescent Substance Use Trends

Tendency of material use in adolescence The pattern and tendency of the material use of youth has been handed down from generation to generation. There are many factors related to increased risk of substance testing. For example, the use of generational material, inadequate parental monitoring and low academic performance can lead to an increased risk of substance use (Allison et al., 1999). The most important substances used and abused in adolescents include alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana (Hussey, Drinkard, Flannery).

Analysis of trends in adolescent substance use and substance use disorders in the United States is important to address public health issues such as the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STI), deaths from cars, and further behavior of juvenile delinquency. As new trends emerge, the risk factors that cause drug use and substance use disorders must be continually assessed to design and develop effective prevention and intervention programs. The purpose of this paper is to compile current research on risk factors leading to adolescent use of drugs and substance use disorders. From an epidemiologic point of view, substance use will be seen as a more likely result of certain risk factors (eg, instead of infectious diseases).

The use of substances is becoming more common during puberty (Cerdetal. 2013). Substance use disorders are not as common as puberty experiments (Young et al. 2002). The age trend is a developmental phenomenon in which substance use increases almost linearly from early to late in adolescence and suggests that alcohol is the most commonly abused substance (Young et al. 2002 ). In Europe, the use of multiple drugs has become more common among young people (European Drug Addiction Monitoring Center 2009). Merikangas et al. (2010) investigated the lifetime prevalence of adolescent psychiatric disorder in the United States and reported a prevalence of 11.4% of substance use disorders.