Preventing Substance Abuse: Interventions that Work

✍ Scribed by Michael J. Stoil, Gary Hill (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 206
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Preventing Substance Abuse is an informal guide to successful programs for treating specific substance abuse problems, identifying their origins, implementation, outcomes, and, where possible, contacts for obtaining additional information. The emphasis is on information documented from outcomes of successful interventions rather than on theories of what should work or what works under experimental conditions. Key features include easy-to-follow charts and graphs and an appendix summarizing the National Structured Evaluation (mandated by Congress) of substance abuse prevention.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
A Problem-Solution Approach to Substance Abuse....Pages 1-11
Problem: Preventing Drug-Exposed Newborns....Pages 13-28
Problem: Prevention among Families in Trouble....Pages 29-42
Problem: Prevention among Young Children....Pages 43-54
Problem: Preparing the Ground for Prevention in Early Adolescence....Pages 55-69
Problem: Preventing Drug Use in Secondary School....Pages 71-88
Problem: Intervening with Teenagers at Highest Risk for Addiction....Pages 89-112
Problem: Preventing Substance Abuse among Employees and Retirees....Pages 113-126
Problem: Reducing the Costs of Alcohol Use....Pages 127-146
Problem: Organizing the Community for Prevention....Pages 147-158
A Short “To Do” List for Drug Abuse Prevention....Pages 159-169
What Doesn’t Work....Pages 171-178
Back Matter....Pages 179-200

✦ Subjects

Public Health/Gesundheitswesen; Epidemiology; Health Psychology