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Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents: IAP Guidelines

Substance use in adolescence can have widespread negative effects on adolescent health, including school failure, respiratory disease, high-risk sexual behaviors, injury,after 35 weeks of gestation and even death. Although some view the occasional use of substances such as alcohol or marijuana as part of normal adolescent development, there exists significant potential for injury...
Substance use in adolescence can have widespread negative effects on adolescent health, including school failure, respiratory disease, high-risk sexual behaviors, injury,after 35 weeks of gestation and even death. Although some view the occasional use of substances such as alcohol or marijuana as part of normal adolescent development, there exists significant potential for injury even with occasional use. Adolescents with substance use problems present in a variety of ways:
The Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) has released Standard Treatment Guidelines 2022 for Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents. The lead author for these guidelines on Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents is Dr. TP Jayaraman along with co-author Dr. Yatesh Pujar and Dr. Kamlesh Parekh. The guidelines come Under the Auspices of the IAP Action Plan 2022, and the members of the IAP Standard Treatment Guidelines Committee include Chairperson Remesh Kumar R, IAP Coordinator Vineet Saxena, National Coordinators SS Kamath, Vinod H Ratageri, Member Secretaries Krishna Mohan R, Vishnu Mohan PT and Members Santanu Deb, Surender Singh Bisht, Prashant Kariya, Narmada Ashok, Pawan Kalyan.
- Indian academy of pediatrics. Mission Kishore Uday Manual 2018-19. Mumbai, India: Indian academy of pediatrics; 2019.
- Kliegman RM, St. Geme J. Adolescent substance abuse. In: Kliegman RM, St. Geme J (Eds). Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 21st edition. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2019.
- National Institute on Drug Abuse. (2011). Preventing Drug Use among Children and Adolescents (In Brief). [online] Available from: https://nida.nih.gov/publications/preventing-drug-use-amongchildren-adolescents/prevention-principles. [Last accessed August, 2022].
- Sathanantham S, Dayasiri K, Thadchanamoorthy V. Approach to the adolescent with substance use in the acute setting. Cureus. 2021;13(7):e16309.
The guidelines can be accessed on the official site of IAP: https://iapindia.org/standard-treatment-guidelines/