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Drugs and Demons: The Complexity of Drug Abuse in Adolescents

CPD Listening Time:	32 Mins
Conference:	Teenagers and Risky Behaviours
Date Recorded:	7th and 8th March 2011
Location:	Melbourne, Australia

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Drugs and Demons: The Complexity of Drug Abuse in Adolescents

This lecture discusses the key factors involved in the development of drug abuse in adolescents. The most commonly used legal and illegal drugs used and abused by adolescents are described. The developing adolescent brain is discussed, and the impact that drug use has on the developing teenage brain, considered. The availability of online pharmaceuticals to this age group is also discussed. The issues of the ‘ice epidemic’ and the policy for supervised ‘chroming’ are explored in this highly informative lecture.

The main concepts explored in this lecture are:

Drug abuse in adolescents and teenagers: key factors
Legal and illegal drugs / substances used and abused by adolescents
Adolescent brain and it’s exposure to illicit drugs
‘Ice epidemic’
‘Chroming’: the policy for supervised ‘chroming’

Speaker: Liz Hodgkinson
Liz Hodgkinson is a social worker who is employed as a senior clinician at the Victoria Dual Diagnosis Initiative, Education and Training Unit, which is based at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. Liz provides consultation, education, training and mentoring to a range of drug and alcohol services, with a focus on those working with young people. Liz also has experience, in residential and community drug and alcohol settings, in both Australia and the United Kingdom.

Duration of session: 32 Minutes
Original session title: Drugs and their Demons
Conference title: Teenagers and Risky Behaviours
Recorded date: 7th and 8th March 2011
Location of recording: Melbourne, Australia

Professional Reviews:

Deborah Lonsdale (Monday, 17 October 2011)

Thankuou for the informative lectue,Regaeds,Deborah.

William Egan (Thursday, 06 October 2011)

Thanks for the feedback, you may also like to listen to these two lectures:  1) http://www.ausmedonline.com/Alcohol-Substance-Abuse/Illicit-and-Licit-Drug-Addictions.html  2) http://www.ausmedonline.com/Members-download-only/Drugs-and-Working-with-Families.html  They may provide you with further insight into illicit drug use.  Will @ Ausmed

Youngjoo Son (Thursday, 06 October 2011)

The lecture only covers very broad aspects of drug & alcohol abuse by adolescents. The main concepts are not explored as it says.