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Abstract
Adolescent substance abuse is a heterogeneous syndrome with important variations in aetiology, onset and course, symptoms, and lifetime substance use patterns.
OBJECTIVE: The current study was conducted to examine the clinical presentation of adolescent substance abuse disorder in a sample of Egyptian adolescent inpatients and to investigate any correlations between the severity of adolescent substance abuse disorder and different risk factors like clinical variables and psychometric measures.
SUBJECTS AND METHODS: The present study evaluated 100 patients who met criteria of substance abuse or dependence disorder according to DSM-IV TR 2000. All patients have been subjected to Psychiatric case history, full medical and neurological assessment, laboratory tests and psychometric assessments.