JPHC CE: The Landscape of Substance Use in Youth-2024

1.0 NAPNAP contact hour. This continuing education activity is offered free to NAPNAP Members. For nonmembers, this continuing education activity rate is $10. An essential role of pediatric providers is to counsel youth and parents on behavioral health issues, including the use of Alcohol or other drugs (AODs). Although substance use by adolescents has decreased, a significant number of adolescents use AODs, causing those with regular use to be at risk of developing behavioral, physical, and mental health consequences that can continue into adulthood. This article was written to help pediatric providers understand the scope and associated effects of AOD use in their adolescent patients and equip them to counsel, identify, and intervene to reduce the harm to their patients who use AODs.
J Pediatr Health Care (2025) Issue, p1-12.

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This continuing education activity is administered by the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) as an Agency providing continuing education credit. Individuals who complete this program and earn a 70% or higher score on the post test will be awarded 1.0 NAPNAP contact hour.

Keywords: Substance-related disorders, alcohol drinking, alcohol-related disorders, adolescent behavior, primary health care. 

Target Audience

Pediatric-focused advanced practice registered nurses

Learning Objectives

1. Apply the epidemiology of substance use in youth to predict the percentage of your patients who are using alcohol or other drugs (AODs) 

2. Estimate the risk level of an adolescent’s reported AOD use 

3. Apply knowledge of the primary ways youth obtain and ingest the common AODs to hold effective conversations with youth who screen positive for AOD use

4. Hold effective conversations with youth and parents regarding prevention of AOD use
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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 Contact hours
Course opens: 
11/01/2025
Course expires: 
12/31/2026
Cost:
$10.00
Rating: 
0

Angela Nash, Associate Professor of Nursing NTI, Cizik School of Nursing, Department of Graduate Studies,The University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth) Houston,TX. 
 

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest:
None to report.

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Correspondence:

Correspondence: Cizik School of Nursing, Department of Graduate Studies,The University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth), 6901 Bertner Ave. SON630, Houston, TX77030.

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Available Credit

  • 1.00 Contact hours

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Cost:
$10.00
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