Because years of completed schooling is highly correlated with long-term social and economic outcomes, the possibility that reductions in substance use may improve school attendance has significant implications for the cost-effectiveness of substance abuse treatment and other interventions designed to reduce adolescents' substance use.
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Reducing substance use improves adolescents school attendance
That reducing substance use improves adolescents school attendance seems obvious, but one of their points about the significance of it isn't:
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