Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drinking of alcoholic beverages
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Promising Strategies to Reduce Substance Abuse
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drinking of alcoholic beverages
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Promising Strategies To Reduce Substance Abuse
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780756719753
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Substance abuse is one of the most pervasive problems facing our nation, costing over $275 billion in health care costs, lost productivity, related crime and other social costs, and contributing to over 130,000 deaths each year. To help communities address the devastating effects of illicit drug and alcohol abuse, this volume has been developed to highlight best practices in prevention, treatment, and law enforcement. It is intended to serve as a guide to communities by identifying the core elements of promising strategies and providing examples of programs that are making a difference locally. Contents: prevention, treatment, and law enforcement.
Facing Addiction in America
Author: Office of the Surgeon GeneralPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781974580620
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
All across the United States, individuals, families, communities, and health care systems are struggling to cope with substance use, misuse, and substance use disorders. Substance misuse and substance use disorders have devastating effects, disrupt the future plans of too many young people, and all too often, end lives prematurely and tragically. Substance misuse is a major public health challenge and a priority for our nation to address. The effects of substance use are cumulative and costly for our society, placing burdens on workplaces, the health care system, families, states, and communities. The Report discusses opportunities to bring substance use disorder treatment and mainstream health care systems into alignment so that they can address a person's overall health, rather than a substance misuse or a physical health condition alone or in isolation. It also provides suggestions and recommendations for action that everyone-individuals, families, community leaders, law enforcement, health care professionals, policymakers, and researchers-can take to prevent substance misuse and reduce its consequences.
Promising Practices and Strategies to Reduce Alcohol and Substance Abuse Among American Indians and Alaska Natives
Author: A Promising Future
Author: Mary A. JansenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Reducing Underage Drinking
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309089352
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 761
Book Description
Alcohol use by young people is extremely dangerous - both to themselves and society at large. Underage alcohol use is associated with traffic fatalities, violence, unsafe sex, suicide, educational failure, and other problem behaviors that diminish the prospects of future success, as well as health risks â€" and the earlier teens start drinking, the greater the danger. Despite these serious concerns, the media continues to make drinking look attractive to youth, and it remains possible and even easy for teenagers to get access to alcohol. Why is this dangerous behavior so pervasive? What can be done to prevent it? What will work and who is responsible for making sure it happens? Reducing Underage Drinking addresses these questions and proposes a new way to combat underage alcohol use. It explores the ways in which may different individuals and groups contribute to the problem and how they can be enlisted to prevent it. Reducing Underage Drinking will serve as both a game plan and a call to arms for anyone with an investment in youth health and safety.
School-based Drug Abuse Prevention
Author: National Crime Prevention Centre (Canada)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drug abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
TIP 35: Enhancing Motivation for Change in Substance Use Disorder Treatment (Updated 2019)
Author: U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794755136
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Motivation is key to substance use behavior change. Counselors can support clients' movement toward positive changes in their substance use by identifying and enhancing motivation that already exists. Motivational approaches are based on the principles of person-centered counseling. Counselors' use of empathy, not authority and power, is key to enhancing clients' motivation to change. Clients are experts in their own recovery from SUDs. Counselors should engage them in collaborative partnerships. Ambivalence about change is normal. Resistance to change is an expression of ambivalence about change, not a client trait or characteristic. Confrontational approaches increase client resistance and discord in the counseling relationship. Motivational approaches explore ambivalence in a nonjudgmental and compassionate way.
Schools
Author: United Nations Office on Drugs and CrimePublisher: New York : United Nations
ISBN: 9789211481914
Category : Drug abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This publication does not offer a pre-packaged programme of education for drug abuse prevention that can be picked up and implemented. It is rather an attempt to provide a conceptual basis upon which teachers, policy makers and school administrators can make decisions about school based drug prevention programmes in order to achieve greater success in education terms" -- p. 6.
Harm Reduction in Substance Use and High-Risk Behaviour
Author: Richard PatesPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118343352
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Harm Reduction is a philosophy of public health intended as a progressive alternative to the prohibition of certain potentially dangerous lifestyle choices. Recognising that certain people always have and always will engage in behaviours which carry risks, the aim of harm reduction is to mitigate the potential dangers and health risks associated with those behaviours. Harm Reduction in Substance Use and High-Risk Behaviour offers a comprehensive exploration of the policy, practice and evidence base of harm reduction. Starting with a history of harm reduction, the book addresses key ethical and legal issues central to the debates and developments in the field. It discusses the full range of psychoactive substances, behaviours and communities with chapters on injecting, dance drugs, stimulant use, tobacco harm reduction, alcohol use and sex work. Written by an international team of contributors, this text provides an essential panorama of harm reduction in the 21st century for educators and researchers in addiction and public health, postgraduate students and policy makers.