Preventing Harmful Substance Use: The evidence base for policy and practice

✍ Scribed by Tim Stockwell, Paul Gruenewald, John Toumbourou, Wendy Loxley

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 496
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Preventing Harmful Substance Use......Page 3
Contents......Page 7
About the Editors......Page 11
Contributors......Page 13
Preface......Page 17
Acknowledgements......Page 19
SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION......Page 21
1.1 Preventing Risky Drug Use and Related Harms: The Need for a Synthesis of New Knowledge......Page 23
SECTION 2 PATTERNS OF RISK AND RELATED HARMS......Page 37
2.1 Introduction......Page 39
2.2 The Global Burden of Disease Attributable to Alcohol, Tobacco and Illicit Drugs......Page 45
2.3 Substance Use and Mental Health in Longitudinal Perspective......Page 63
2.4 Predicting Developmentally Harmful Substance Use......Page 73
2.5 Population Ecologies of Drug Use, Drinking and Related Problems......Page 87
SECTION 3 INTERVENTIONS FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS......Page 99
3.1 Introduction......Page 101
3.2 What Do We Know about Preventing Drug-Related Harm through Social Developmental Intervention with Children and Young People?......Page 107
3.3 The Evidence Base for School Drug Education Interventions......Page 121
3.4 Alcohol Policy and Youth Drinking: Overview of Effective Interventions for Young People......Page 133
3.5 Testing a Community Prevention Focused Model of Coalition Functioning and Sustainability: A Comprehensive Study of Communities That Care in Pennsylvania......Page 149
SECTION 4 INTERVENTIONS IN THE COMMUNITY: ILLUSTRATIVE CASE STUDIES......Page 163
4.1 Introduction......Page 165
4.2 Community Systems and Ecologies of Drug and Alcohol Problems......Page 169
4.3 Violence Prevention in Licensed Premises......Page 183
4.4 Application of Evidence-Based Approaches to Community Interventions......Page 197
4.5 Preventing Alcohol and Other Drug Problems in the Workplace......Page 211
4.6 Effects of a Community Action Program on Problems Related to Alcohol Consumption at Licensed Premises......Page 227
4.7 Strategies for Community-Based Drug Law Enforcement: From Prohibition to Harm Reduction......Page 245
SECTION 5 LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY PERSPECTIVES ON THE PREVENTION OF RISKY DRUG USE AND HARM......Page 257
5.1 Introduction......Page 259
5.2 Regulating Tobacco to Minimise Harms......Page 265
5.3 Intelligence-Led Regulation of Licensed Premises......Page 277
5.4 Deterrence Theory and the Limitations of Criminal Penalties for Cannabis Use......Page 287
5.5 Interventions for Illicit Drug Users Within the Criminal Justice System: A Review of Some Programmes in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States......Page 299
5.6 Social Ecology and the Invention of New Regulatory Strategies for Preventing Drug and Alcohol Problems......Page 311
SECTION 6 THE EVIDENCE BASE FOR PREVENTION IN BROAD PERSPECTIVE......Page 327
6.1 Introduction......Page 329
6.2 What is “Evidence”, and Can We Provide It?......Page 333
6.3 US Policy on Illegal Drugs: What We Don’t Know Keeps Hurting us—A Perspective on Future Research Needs......Page 345
6.4 Preventing Tobacco Use and Harm: What Is Evidence Based Policy?......Page 357
6.5 Moving Toward a Common Evidence Base for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Policy......Page 371
6.6 The Evidence Base for Preventing the Spread of Blood-Borne Diseases within and from Populations of Injecting Drug Users......Page 387
6.7 The Evidence Base for Responding to Substance Misuse in Indigenous Minority Populations......Page 401
SECTION 7 FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR PREVENTION POLICY AND RESEARCH......Page 415
7.1 Introduction......Page 417
7.2 Investing for Cost-Effectiveness in the Face of Uncertainty: Applying Financial Portfolio Optimization to Prevention Programming......Page 421
7.3 How Should Governments Spend the Drug Prevention Dollar?: A Buyer’s Guide......Page 435
7.4 Key Moments in the Ethnography of Drug-Related Harm: Reality Checks for Policy-Makers?......Page 453
7.5 Recommendations for New Directions in the Prevention of Risky Substance Use and Related Harms......Page 463
Index......Page 485