Adolescents are undertreated for addiction

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - 10:10 in Psychology & Sociology

Only about 10 percent of adolescents needing help for substance abuse problems actually enter treatment, partly because of the lack of adolescent-only services in the nation's treatment system, according to a new study released today by a University of Kentucky researcher. The study also found that very few of the available addiction programs for teens received high marks for quality...

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