Accepted: June 4, 2021

Received in revised form: June 2, 2021

Received: February 15, 2021

Dr. Barnert’s time is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (K23 DA045747-01), the California Community Foundation (BA-19-154836), and the University of California, Los Angeles Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute. Dr. Bath has received funding from the Los Angeles County Department of Probation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health under the AACAP NIDA K12 program (K12 DA000357), the California Community Foundation, and the UCLA Center for Strengthening Children and Families. Contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of NIH.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: Bath

Project administration: Bath

Resources: Barnert

Supervision: Barnert, Bath

Writing – original draft: Barnert, Bath

Writing – review and editing: Ramos, Barnert, Bath

The authors would like to acknowledge Mikaela Kelly, MD, MPH, of the University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, for her assistance in reviewing the literature on mental health among justice-involved youth and Georgia Perris, BA, of the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California, Los Angeles, for her editorial support.

Disclosure: Drs. Ramos, Barnert, and Bath have reported no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2021.06.014

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