Some selections may be annotated to aid your choice of the right reference work.

Index

Teens, Drugs & Alcohol

Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Abuse: How to Spot It, Stop It, and Get Help for Your Family. Nikki Babbit, Patient Center Guides, 2000.

Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy (2nd Ed.). Cynthia Kuhn, W.W. Norton & Company, 2003.

Dirty: A Search For Answers Inside America’s Teenage Drug Epidemic. Meredeith Maran, HarperCollins Books, 2003.

Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System. Lonny Shavelson, New Press, 2002.

Over the Influence: The Harm Reduction Guide for Managing Drugs and Alcohol. Patt Denning, Jeannie Little and Adina Glickman, Guilford Press, 2003.

Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood. Koren Zailckas, Viking Adult, 2005.

Teens Under the Influence: The Truth About Kids, Alcohol and Other Drugs—How to Recognize the Problem and What to Do About It. Katherine Ketcham, Ballantine Books, 2003.

The addicted brain. E. Nestler and R. Malenka, Scientific American, pp. 78-85, March 2004.

The adolescent brain and college drinker: Biological basis of propensity to use and misuse alcohol. L. Spear, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 14, pp. 71-81, 2002.

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx. Adrian N. LeBlanc, New York: Scribner, 2004.

Uppers, Downers and All-Arounders (5th Ed.). Darryl Inaba and William Cohen. CNS Publications, 2003.

What makes teens tick? C. Wallis, Time, May 10, 2004.

Why Do They Act That Way?: A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen. D. Walsh, Simon & Schuster, 2004.

Online references:

www.thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/index_d.html#
The brain from top to bottom. B. Dubuc, 2004.

www.drugabuse.gov/Published_Articles/
Oops. How casual drug use leads to addiction. A. Leshner, National Institute on Drug Abuse, September, 2000.

© 2005 Michael Y. Simon, MFT