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U.S. Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. 1999. Treatment of adolescents with substance use disorders. Rockville, MD: U.S. Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, 126 pp. (Treatment improvement protocol (TIP) series; 32)

Annotation: This report provides a revision and update of Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) 4, published in 1993 in a series of best practices guidelines to help treatment providers design and deliver better services to adolescent clients with substance abuse disorders. Chapter topics include: substance use among adolescents; tailoring treatment to the adolescent's problem; general program characteristics; twelve-step based program; therapeutic communities; family therapy; youth with distinctive treatment needs; and legal and ethical issues. Three appendices are also included: (1) bibliography; (2) medical management of drug intoxication and withdrawal; and (3) field reviewers. Program information and statistics are provided in figures throughout the report.

Keywords: Adolescent behavior, Adolescent health, Adolescents, Ethics, Family therapy, Health personnel, High risk adolescents, Legal issues, Mental health, Program descriptions, Protocols, Substance abuse treatment services, Substance abusers, Substance use screening, Substance withdrawal syndrome, Therapeutic programs

Ward JP, ed. 1986. Focus on the neonatal intensive care unit. Park Ridge, IL: Park Ridge Center, 157 pp. (Second opinion: Health, faith and ethics)

Annotation: This book discusses the issue of babies in the neonatal intensive care unit and when it is appropriate to decide not to treat them. It includes a father's journal of his son's stay in the NICU, a discussion of health care reform by Joseph Califano, formerly Secretary of Health and Human Services, and religious dimensions in understanding health.

Keywords: Ethics, Neonatal intensive care units, Treatment withdrawal
   

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