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Adolescent Substance Use - Coggle Diagram
Adolescent Substance Use
Adolescence as an Ontogenetic Stage
Age range
From 10 to 19 years old
Characteristics
Brain changes
Behavioral traits
Hormonal changes
Importance
Critical window where brain maturation overlaps with risk behaviors
High vulnerability to substances
Interrupted processes or altered
Neurodevelopment
White matter integrity loss
Cognition
Memory, inhibitory control and learning deficits
Emotion Regulation
Increased depression and anxiety
Reward processing
Heightened craving and impaired motivation circuits
Social Functioning
Aggression, poor school or work performance, etc.
Types of substances and effects
Nicotine
Low attention and self control
Highly addictive
High depression and anxiety risk
Alcohol
Memory and learning deficits
Less impulse control
Brain reward damage
High risky behaviors
Cannabis
Less concentration
Less school performance
Highly depression and suicidality risk
Poor adult adjustment
Examples
Lower grades
Being unsafe, fights, bad driving
Higher depression and anxiety
Conflict with family, and with the people around