Table of Contents

EDITORIAL

Drug addiction and our youth
Donald E Greydanus

Social cognition, executive dysfunction and neuro-behavioral karate: Alternative medicine or psychomotor treatment?
Mark T Palermo and Donald E Greydanus

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Hanging with the Hoodies: Towards an understanding of the territorial tagging practices of prolific graffiti writers seeking an adolescent non-conforming social identity
Myra F Taylor

Predicting pediatrician sick-visits for adolescents
Laura Nabors and Brian T Olsen

Smoking outcome expectancies and smoking status from early to late adolescence in Greece
Evdoxia Kosmidou, Mary Hassandra, Antonis Hatzigeorgiadis, Marios Goudas, and Yiannis Theodorakis

Considering an alternative: Interest in use of spiritually based activities as deterent to substance abuse behavior
Patricia Coccoma and Scott Anstadt

Assessing the satisfaction of teens with kidney transplants who have attended an adolescent transition clinic
Cheryl Belair, Jordan Gilleland, and Sandra Amaral

Bang bang, you’re … NOT dead and you’re … NOT even hurt?! Messages provided by animated cartoons about gun violence
Hugh Klein and Kenneth S Shiffman

The myth behind and the reality of universal access to elementary education: A comparative study between Bihar and West Bengal
Arijit Das

CASE REPORTS

Vaginal septum and interstitial cystitis in a 13 year old girl
Mohammad Sami Walid and Richard L Heaton

TRENDS AND MILESTONES

Residential care centers for people with intellectual disability in Israel: Trends in contraception methods 1999-2007
Shoshana Aspler, Ariel Tenenbaum, Dan Rorman, Amanda Sinai, Brian Seth Fuchs, Mordechai Raskas, Meir Lotan, and Joav Merrick