This text provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the essential aspects of youth substance abuse—an important contemporary personal, social, and public health issue.

• Presents individual perspectives on youth substance abuse issues that provide readers with a very personal outlook on specific aspects of the topic

• Provides readers with broad coverage of current issues and topics in substance abuse by adolescents as well as a historical perspective of how this problem has developed in the United States over the past century

• Includes a chapter of primary documents sourced from a number of laws and court cases dealing with various aspects of youth substance abuse