Preventing Drug Misuse and Addiction: The Best Strategy National Institute on Drug Abuse NIDA
Some of these behavioral characteristics, in turn, contribute to a greater likelihood of initiating substance use (Lisdahl et al., 2018). The temporal overlap between substance use initiation and the vulnerable neurodevelopmental windows makes this an important period to study (Spear, 2000; Thorpe et al., 2020). The 2023 data continue to document stable or declining trends …