What do young people think of youth AOD services?

We recently came across a research article we thought was worth sharing. The article - titled “A qualitative study exploring how young people perceive and experience substance use services in British Columbia, Canada.” The article describes a participatory action research project that involved recruiting a group of young people aged under 30 to run focus groups that looked at experiences of the youth AOD treatment system. The authors found that a disease-focused AOD treatment system was unsuitable for many of the young people. Instead, a more integrated youth-centred approach that addressed a broad range of concerns linked to substance use was more likely to be successful at engaging and retaining young people in treatment.

Go to “A qualitative study exploring how young people perceive and experience substance use services in British Columbia, Canada.”