Preventing Harmful Substance Use

Author : Tim Stockwell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015060866384

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Preventing Harmful Substance Use by Tim Stockwell Pdf

The prevention of harm from drug use, both legal and illegal, is a major concern to government departments and clinicians throughout the world. Recently, much new research has been conducted regarding global levels and patterns of drug-related harm, on common risk factors with other social problems (e.g. mental health, crime) and on the effectiveness of wide range of intervention strategies. There is a need to summarise and synthesise this new knowledge for use in a range of disciplines. Preventing Harmful Substance Use offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date advice available on the prevention of drug and alcohol abuse. Contributors provide authoritative, science-based reviews of knowledge on their areas of expertise, and make clear recommendations for the future of prevention policy and practice. A final section draws the work together and offers a framework for an integrated science of prevention.

Author : Tim Stockwell,Paul Gruenewald,John Toumbourou,Wendy Loxley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780470092293

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Preventing Harmful Substance Use by Tim Stockwell,Paul Gruenewald,John Toumbourou,Wendy Loxley Pdf

The prevention of harm from drug use, both legal and illegal, is a major concern to government departments and clinicians throughout the world. Recently, much new research has been conducted regarding global levels and patterns of drug-related harm, on common risk factors with other social problems (e.g. mental health, crime) and on the effectiveness of wide range of intervention strategies. There is a need to summarise and synthesise this new knowledge for use in a range of disciplines. Preventing Harmful Substance Use offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date advice available on the prevention of drug and alcohol abuse. Contributors provide authoritative, science-based reviews of knowledge on their areas of expertise, and make clear recommendations for the future of prevention policy and practice. A final section draws the work together and offers a framework for an integrated science of prevention.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences,Committee on the Science of Changing Behavioral Health Social Norms
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309439121

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Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences,Committee on the Science of Changing Behavioral Health Social Norms Pdf

Estimates indicate that as many as 1 in 4 Americans will experience a mental health problem or will misuse alcohol or drugs in their lifetimes. These disorders are among the most highly stigmatized health conditions in the United States, and they remain barriers to full participation in society in areas as basic as education, housing, and employment. Improving the lives of people with mental health and substance abuse disorders has been a priority in the United States for more than 50 years. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 is considered a major turning point in America's efforts to improve behavioral healthcare. It ushered in an era of optimism and hope and laid the groundwork for the consumer movement and new models of recovery. The consumer movement gave voice to people with mental and substance use disorders and brought their perspectives and experience into national discussions about mental health. However over the same 50-year period, positive change in American public attitudes and beliefs about mental and substance use disorders has lagged behind these advances. Stigma is a complex social phenomenon based on a relationship between an attribute and a stereotype that assigns undesirable labels, qualities, and behaviors to a person with that attribute. Labeled individuals are then socially devalued, which leads to inequality and discrimination. This report contributes to national efforts to understand and change attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that can lead to stigma and discrimination. Changing stigma in a lasting way will require coordinated efforts, which are based on the best possible evidence, supported at the national level with multiyear funding, and planned and implemented by an effective coalition of representative stakeholders. Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders: The Evidence for Stigma Change explores stigma and discrimination faced by individuals with mental or substance use disorders and recommends effective strategies for reducing stigma and encouraging people to seek treatment and other supportive services. It offers a set of conclusions and recommendations about successful stigma change strategies and the research needed to inform and evaluate these efforts in the United States.

Author : Office of the Surgeon General,U.s. Department of Health and Human Services
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1974580628

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Facing Addiction in America by Office of the Surgeon General,U.s. Department of Health and Human Services Pdf

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.

Author : Cath Senker
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1404243046

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Avoiding Harmful Substances by Cath Senker Pdf

Informs children about what medications, household chemicals, alcohol, cigarettes, and other potentially dangerous or harmful substances are, and explains why it is important to avoid them.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Brain
ISBN : MINN:31951D025861296

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Drugs, Brains, and Behavior by Anonim Pdf

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9241548738

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Guidelines for the Identification and Management of Substance Use and Substance Use Disorders in Pregnancy by World Health Organization Pdf

These guidelines have been developed to enable professionals to assist women who are pregnant, or have recently had a child, and who use alcohol or drugs or who have a substance use disorder, to achieve healthy outcomes for themselves and their fetus or infant. They have been developed in response to requests from organizations, institutions and individuals for technical guidance on the identification and management of alcohol, and other substance use and substance use disorders in pregnant women. They were developed in tandem with the WHO recommendations for the prevention and management of tobacco use and second-hand smoke exposure in pregnancy.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Opportunities in Drug Abuse Research
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996-11-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309055338

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Pathways of Addiction by Institute of Medicine,Committee on Opportunities in Drug Abuse Research Pdf

Drug abuse persists as one of the most costly and contentious problems on the nation's agenda. Pathways of Addiction meets the need for a clear and thoughtful national research agenda that will yield the greatest benefit from today's limited resources. The committee makes its recommendations within the public health framework and incorporates diverse fields of inquiry and a range of policy positions. It examines both the demand and supply aspects of drug abuse. Pathways of Addiction offers a fact-filled, highly readable examination of drug abuse issues in the United States, describing findings and outlining research needs in the areas of behavioral and neurobiological foundations of drug abuse. The book covers the epidemiology and etiology of drug abuse and discusses several of its most troubling health and social consequences, including HIV, violence, and harm to children. Pathways of Addiction looks at the efficacy of different prevention interventions and the many advances that have been made in treatment research in the past 20 years. The book also examines drug treatment in the criminal justice setting and the effectiveness of drug treatment under managed care. The committee advocates systematic study of the laws by which the nation attempts to control drug use and identifies the research questions most germane to public policy. Pathways of Addiction provides a strategic outline for wise investment of the nation's research resources in drug abuse. This comprehensive and accessible volume will have widespread relevanceâ€"to policymakers, researchers, research administrators, foundation decisionmakers, healthcare professionals, faculty and students, and concerned individuals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drinking of alcoholic beverages
ISBN : PURD:32754070183391

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Promising Strategies to Reduce Substance Abuse by Anonim Pdf

Author : National Crime Prevention Centre (Canada)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : UIUC:30112101886098

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School-based Drug Abuse Prevention by National Crime Prevention Centre (Canada) Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264280403

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Health at a Glance 2017 OECD Indicators by OECD Pdf

This new edition of Health at a Glance presents the most recent comparable data on the health status of populations and health system performance in OECD countries.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264181069

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Tackling Harmful Alcohol Use Economics and Public Health Policy by OECD Pdf

This book examines trends and social disparities in alcohol consumption. It assesses the health, social and economic impacts of key policy options for tackling alcohol-related harms in Canada, the Czech Republic and Germany, extracting policy messages for a broader set of countries.

Author : Kenneth J. Sher
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : PSYCHOLOGY
ISBN : 9780199381678

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The Oxford Handbook of Substance Use and Substance Use Disorders by Kenneth J. Sher Pdf

"The Oxford Handbook of Substance Use and Substance Use Disorders provides comprehensive reviews of key areas of inquiry into the fundamental nature of substance use and SUDs, their features, causes, consequences, course, treatment, and prevention"--

Author : Julie A. Schumacher,Daniel C. Williams
Publisher : Clinical Health Psychology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1433830787

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Psychological Treatment of Medical Patients Struggling with Harmful Substance Use by Julie A. Schumacher,Daniel C. Williams Pdf

This book shows mental health providers how to assess and treat substance use in medical settings. Clinical health psychologists often encounter patients needing interventions for substance use, yet rarely do practitioners receive specialized training in this area. Psychological Treatment of Medical Patients With Harmful Substance Use is designed for mental health providers in medical settings who need the knowledge and skills to assess and treat conditions relevant to substance use. This book is especially useful for mental health providers who treat adult medical outpatients for whom substance use is not their primary presenting problem. The authors clarify the distinction between nonharmful and harmful substance use, describe the signs and symptoms of substance use disorders, epidemiology, current models denoting biological and socio-cultural causes, and contributing factors (with an emphasis on cardiac, cancer, women's health, and primary care settings). They offer best-practice assessment strategies, and psychological, self-help and pharmacological treatments. Chapters also describe assessment and intervention for conditions that are often comorbid with substance use, including depression, anxiety, and sleep dysregulation, as well as treatment for family members who are dealing with a loved one's harmful substance use, relapse prevention and continuing care.

Author : Wendy Loxley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030033037732

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The Prevention of Substance Use, Risk and Harm in Australia: Summary by Wendy Loxley Pdf