The environment plays a huge role dealing with adolescent
and their time spent growing up. The adolescent family members and most
importantly gaining relationships with other people can take a toll on the effect
of adolescent abusing alcohol or other substance drugs. Research are conducted
to show the outcomes in adolescent entering an alcohol or other drugs (AOD)
treatment, to state whether or not the adolescence remains abstinence after one
year of alcohol intake.
A study was conducted to examine the involvement of one-year
abstinence, predicting the adolescence will have fewer than four friends
drinking alcohol or using a substance after a year. The study surveyed 419
adolescence between the ages of thirteen to eighteen years of age, who intake
to alcohol and other drugs treatment. After one-year had passed, the research followed up with a
telephone survey. The results displayed participants who attended a 10-12 step
recovery program were more prone to be abstinent.
The findings from the research conducted were that the
family members’ environment, which includes the family members’ experience,
however is not related to peer interaction. As adolescents grow, older friends
become an important factor in the adolescent activity of daily living. The friends drinking uses alcohol and other
drugs (AOD) behavior effects how the adolescence drinking behavior. Many
research studies suggested that adolescence friends have a greater impact than
the parents who suffer from substance or drug abuse. Majority of the
adolescence peer influence originated from family and early childhood
occurrences. Findings show that adolescents with fewer alcohol or other drugs
using friends were more likely to be abstinent than adolescence with more than
four friends using AOD.
There were a few limitations to the study. One limitation
contained advanced practice registered nurse (APRN), and other behavior care
providers screen strictly for alcohol and other drug as primary concern.
Another limitation is that APRN’s spend additional time with their patients
that a physician, while being able to have more communication opportunities
each visits.
Reference:
Ramirez, R., Hinman, A., Sterling, S., Weisner, C., & Campbell, C. (2012). Peer Influences on Adolescent Alcohol and Other Drug Use Outcomes. Journal Of Nursing Scholarship, 44(1), 36-44. doi:10.1111/j.1547-5069.2011.
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