Throughout, the contributors make clear that education is more valuable to understanding--and preventing--substance abuse than are prohibition and zero-tolerance thinking.

Included among the topics:

• Cognitive development, learning, and drug use.
• Neurobiology of the action of drugs of abuse.
• Findings in adolescents with substance dependence based on neuroimaging tests.
• Alcohol abuse in adolescents: relevance of animal models.
• Effects of chronic drug abuse on the chronobiology of sleep in adolescents.
• Neurological and cognitive disorders arising from the chronic use of drugs of abuse.

The multiple lenses for understanding its subject and the sensitivity with which causal nuances are treated make Neuroscience of Drug Abuse in Adolescence an invaluable resource for clinical and child psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and addiction counselors.