Second National Workshop On Hiv Alcohol And Other Drug Use

Author : Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
Publisher : CCSA = CCLAT
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Medical
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030024294029

Get Book

Second National Workshop on HIV, Alcohol, and Other Drug Use by Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse Pdf

Proceedings of a workshop held to contribute to the prevention of HIV infection and its consequences by highlighting new information and strategies to reduce HIV transmission associated with the use of alcohol and other drugs, both licit and illicit. Topics of papers include the extent of HIV infection and drug use in Canada; contextual and community considerations in HIV, sexual behaviour, and substance use research; risk taking contexts among addicts; HIV infection prevention measures; issues and challenges in the management of HIV prevention; criminal law and drugs; drug policy and law enforcement; prevalence, incidence, and risk factors of HIV for injection drug users; targeting vulnerable populations such as women, youth, and gays; and perspectives on HIV prevention from Canada, the United States, and Britain. Appendices include an outline of issues and recommendations from working sessions.

Author : Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse,National Workshop on HIV, Alcohol, and Other Drug Use (2nd : 1994 : Edmonton, Alta.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995*
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : OCLC:47642907

Get Book

Second National Workshop on HIV, Alcohol, and Other Drug Use [electronic Resource] : Proceedings, Edmonton, Alberta, February 6-9, 1994 by Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse,National Workshop on HIV, Alcohol, and Other Drug Use (2nd : 1994 : Edmonton, Alta.) Pdf

Author : National Research Council and Institute of Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Panel on Needle Exchange and Bleach Distribution Programs
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995-09-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309176217

Get Book

Preventing HIV Transmission by National Research Council and Institute of Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Panel on Needle Exchange and Bleach Distribution Programs Pdf

This volume addresses the interface of two major national problems: the epidemic of HIV-AIDS and the widespread use of illegal injection drugs. Should communities have the option of giving drug users sterile needles or bleach for cleaning needs in order to reduce the spread of HIV? Does needle distribution worsen the drug problem, as opponents of such programs argue? Do they reduce the spread of other serious diseases, such as hepatitis? Do they result in more used needles being carelessly discarded in the community? The panel takes a critical look at the available data on needle exchange and bleach distribution programs, reaches conclusions about their efficacy, and offers concrete recommendations for public policy to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS. The book includes current knowledge about the epidemiologies of HIV/AIDS and injection drug use; characteristics of needle exchange and bleach distribution programs and views on those programs from diverse community groups; and a discussion of laws designed to control possession of needles, their impact on needle sharing among injection drug users, and their implications for needle exchange programs.

Author : David Shewan,John B. Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134432349

Get Book

Drug Use in Prisons by David Shewan,John B. Davies Pdf

First Published in 2000. In this title, the author argues that drug users end up in gaol for many reasons, but in the most general terms they divide the drug-using part of a prison population along three lines. Those incarcerated because of their use or possession of drugs with intent to supply, those gaoled for offences other than drug use, but who happen to be involved in drug use and those who acquired their drug habit whilst in gaol. They argue that whilst prisons offer the opportunity to influence drug habits in a positive way, it can also produce exactly the opposite effect.

Author : Constance A. Nathanson
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781610444194

Get Book

Disease Prevention as Social Change by Constance A. Nathanson Pdf

From mad-cow disease and E. coli-tainted spinach in the food supply to anthrax scares and fears of a bird flu pandemic, national health threats are a perennial fact of American life. Yet not all crises receive the level of attention they seem to merit. The marked contrast between the U.S. government's rapid response to the anthrax outbreak of 2001 and years of federal inaction on the spread of AIDS among gay men and intravenous drug users underscores the influence of politics and public attitudes in shaping the nation's response to health threats. In Disease Prevention as Social Change, sociologist Constance Nathanson argues that public health is inherently political, and explores the social struggles behind public health interventions by the governments of four industrialized democracies. Nathanson shows how public health policies emerge out of battles over power and ideology, in which social reformers clash with powerful interests, from dairy farmers to tobacco lobbyists to the Catholic Church. Comparing the history of four public health dilemmas—tuberculosis and infant mortality at the turn of the last century, and more recently smoking and AIDS—in the United States, France, Britain, and Canada, Nathanson examines the cultural and institutional factors that shaped reform movements and led each government to respond differently to the same health challenges. She finds that concentrated political power is no guarantee of government intervention in the public health domain. France, an archetypical strong state, has consistently been decades behind other industrialized countries in implementing public health measures, in part because political centralization has afforded little opportunity for the development of grassroots health reform movements. In contrast, less government centralization in America has led to unusually active citizen-based social movements that campaigned effectively to reduce infant mortality and restrict smoking. Public perceptions of health risks are also shaped by politics, not just science. Infant mortality crusades took off in the late nineteenth century not because of any sudden rise in infant mortality rates, but because of elite anxieties about the quantity and quality of working-class populations. Disease Prevention as Social Change also documents how culture and hierarchies of race, class, and gender have affected governmental action—and inaction—against particular diseases. Informed by extensive historical research and contemporary fieldwork, Disease Prevention as Social Change weaves compelling narratives of the political and social movements behind modern public health policies. By comparing the vastly different outcomes of these movements in different historical and cultural contexts, this path-breaking book advances our knowledge of the conditions in which social activists can succeed in battles over public health.

Author : S. J. Frankowski
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9041110372

Get Book

Legal Responses to AIDS in Comparative Perspective by S. J. Frankowski Pdf

The book is a collection of ten essays on legal responses to HIV/AIDS, written by scholars from five continents (Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe & America). Each essay deals with HIV/AIDS-related problems in the author's country. An effort was made to select highly-diversified countries belonging to different families of law, the countries varying in their political, ethnic, & religious backgrounds. The contributors were encouraged to explore the links between HIV/AIDS-related problems & other social issues. They were also encouraged to reflect upon the limits & effectiveness of legal measures in reducing the growth of the epidemic. Finally, the goal of the project was to find whether it is possible to achieve a proper balance between the need to protect societies from the scourge of AIDS & the need to protect the rights of those afflicted by the disease.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Alcoholism
ISBN : MINN:30000010745739

Get Book

ADAMHA News by Anonim Pdf

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 : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309439121

Get Book

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 : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1974580628

Get Book

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 : Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Publisher : Centre of Addiction & Mental Hlth
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : 0888683065

Get Book

Management of Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Problems by Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Alcoholism
ISBN : MINN:31951P01060257Y

Get Book

Prevention Pipeline by Anonim Pdf

An alcohol and drug awareness service.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1388 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Government publications
ISBN : MINN:31951P00237273D

Get Book

Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112005599458

Get Book

Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000019277035

Get Book

Drug Abuse Treatment by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35558004062465

Get Book

Substance Use & Misuse by Anonim Pdf