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HLTH 3 - Substance Abuse Awareness

Library, Online, and Community Resources for Substance Abuse Awareness

Articles from library databases

Newspapers

Improving your search

1. Define your research question.

What are the causes of addiction to smoking among teenagers?

2. Identify the main keywords. 

  1. teenagers
  2. addiction
  3. smoking

3. Pick synonyms for each keyword.

Keyword 1                     Keyword 2                           Keyword 3

adolescents                     substance abuse                    tobacco 

young adults                    dependency                          cigarettes

teenagers                             addiction                                     smoking

Combine search words

(teen* or adolescen* or "young adult*") AND (smok* or cigarette* or tobacco or vap* or E-cigarrette*)

 pregnan* AND "drug abuse"

"doping in sports" AND steroids

marijuana AND (law or legislation or "drug legalization" or "narcotic law*")

addiction AND biolog* AND (cause* or etiolog*)

addict* AND (treatment* or therap*)

(substance abuse" and addict*) AND treatment* AND (recover* or recidiv*)

Opioid* AND community AND respon* AND treatment*