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Definition of Adolescents
1. adolescent [n] - See also: adolescent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adolescents
Literary usage of Adolescents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion & Disease Prevention by DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"The leading causes of death among adolescents and young adults include injuries,
homicide, suicide, cancer, and heart disease. ..."
2. Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General by M. Joycelyn Elders (1997)
"Recent observations of adolescents who have tried to quit smoking suggest that
... 1989) show that many adolescents who try to quit have withdrawal symptoms ..."
3. Smoking Cessation: Clinical Practice Guideline by Michael C. Fiore (1996)
"Tobacco Use Cessation in Children and adolescents Little research evidence exists
regarding either the effectiveness of psychosocial cessation interventions ..."
4. Treatment Services for Adolescent Substance Abusers by Alfred S. Friedman (1998)
"adolescents. Group therapy. For the therapist, each of these entities is ...
Yet group therapy with adolescents, in general, and with young substance ..."
5. The Relationship Between Family Structure & Adolescent Substance Use by Robert A. Johnson, John P. Hoffman, Dean R. Gerstein (1996)
"In "mother only" families, 4.5 percent of black adolescents used other illicit
... Table 3.11 presents the estimated percentages of adolescents who were ..."
6. Trends in Adolescent Fertility and Contraceptive Use in the Developing World by Thomas M. McDevitt, Arjun Adlakha, Timothy B. Fowler, Vera Harris-Bourne (1997)
"Latin America and the Caribbean Traditonal methods Percent of married women ages
15-19 Trends in Contraceptive Use Among Married adolescents Data ..."