Journal of Adolescent Health
Volume 45, Issue 5 , Pages 473-477 , November 2009

Screening Adolescents for Substance Use–Related High-Risk Sexual Behaviors

  • Sharon Levy, M.D., M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Division on Addictions at Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Division of Developmental Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA
    • Department of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Sharon Levy, M.D., M.P.H., Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research, Children's Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115.
    • ,
  • Lon Sherritt, M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • Division on Addictions at Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Division of Developmental Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Joy Gabrielli

      Affiliations

    • Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
    • ,
  • Lydia A. Shrier, M.D., M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
    • ,
  • John R. Knight, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Division on Addictions at Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Division of Developmental Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA
    • Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Department of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts

Received 8 December 2008 ,Accepted 24 March 2009.

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PII: S1054-139X(09)00148-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2009.03.028

Journal of Adolescent Health
Volume 45, Issue 5 , Pages 473-477 , November 2009

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