Environmental paths that inform adolescent substance use prevention

Promoting healthy development among youth is one of the grand challenges taken on by social work. Because substance use can negatively affect the health and development of adolescents, this study examined environmental factors affecting substance use among adolescents ages 12 through 17 by gender using data from 17,736 adolescents in the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. It was hypothesized that environmental inputs such as parenting,...