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The “Drug Court Strengthening Families” Program
Published in James J. Hennessy, Nathaniel J. Pallone, Drug Courts in Operation: Current Research, 2019
TK Logan, Carl Leukefeld, Lisa Minton, Joanie Abrahmson, Rebecca Hughes
In summary, these children had contact with both their Drug Court parent and their non-Drug Court parent. Most of these children lived with their mothers while their fathers were more often Drug Court clients. Reported problem behaviors of friends increased as age increased. Reported problem behaviors of the program youths also increased with age. In fact, as suggested in the literature, children in this program had similar or higher substance use rates than national estimates (Johnson, O’Malley, & Bachman, 1999a; 1999b). Baseline data suggest that these children are at risk for both substance use and delinquency, and it is critical to provide these children with substance abuse prevention, and their parents with parenting skills enhancement.
From Prohibition to Prevention and Intervention
Published in Jonathan C. Beazley, Stephanie Field, Cannabis on Campus, 2018
Jonathan C. Beazley, Stephanie Field
In conclusion, attempting to influence college students to use less marijuana may be less effective than modifying what and how they think about marijuana. Although this sounds straightforward enough, substance abuse prevention has historically been predicated upon a very direct mission: stopping substance use. This could be attributed to the zeal of an older generation of public health professionals (who may also have been frightened parents!) and funding by a results-oriented government. The overarching goal has always been to sway young adults from substance use, not to educate them. In this direct approach, education has always been a means to an end, not the end in and of itself.
Summary of Key Practice, Research and Policy Implications
Published in Melvin Delgado, Alcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos: Issues and Examples of Culturally Competent Services, 2014
Abuse of alcohol and other drugs presents incredible challenges to the field of substance abuse prevention and treatment. These challenges take on greater importance when the population being addressed is of color. As highlighted in virtually all of the papers, there is tremendous work to be accomplished before cultural competence is achieved with Latinos. There is no area of the field that stands out as exemplary and worthy of replication.
Strengthening systems of care for people with or at risk for HIV, HCV and opioid use disorder: a call for enhanced data collection
Published in Annals of Medicine, 2022
Anthony J. Eller, Elizabeth E. DiDomizio, Lynn M. Madden, Jennifer D. Oliva, Frederick L. Altice, Kimberly A. Johnson
For creating the OUD COC, we reviewed state websites with a focus on substance abuse authority and public health authority pages to locate reports or live data analysis tools. Some states are making de-identified data available for analysis online, which makes it easier to ascertain the number of people using specific medications. These data also can show the frequency of co-infections, the medications that were used for treatment, and individual characteristics like age, race and gender among the population. In the absence of data, we specifically sought out the following reports on state substance abuse pages: overdose reports, treatment utilisation reports, planning documents including federal Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment (SAPT) block grant or State Targeted Response (STR) and State Opioid Response (SOR) grant proposals.
ADHD, depression, and substance abuse risk among beginning college students
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2020
Kirk D. Mochrie, Mathew C. Whited, Tony Cellucci, Taylor Freeman, Ansley Taylor Corson
Evidence is accumulating that psychosocial interventions should be considered first-line interventions for helping college students with ADHD. Successful management of ADHD through adaptive coping strategies has been found to enhance academic performance and might further target alcohol/drug use.21,22 Moreover, the present findings suggest substance abuse prevention and management of emotional difficulties such as depression should be central modules in such programs. Perhaps reaching out to students with ADHD early in their college careers could reduce both substance risk as well as academic and emotional difficulties. Finally, college health professionals may wish to provide psychoeducation to their ADHD clients addressing their potential risk for substance use.
A review of tribal best practices in substance abuse prevention
Published in Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 2019
Allyson Kelley, Morgan Witzel, Bethany Fatupaito
Although most published literature focuses on culture-based treatment (Greenfield & Venner, 2012; Rowan et al., 2014) as opposed to prevention, there is limited literature on substance use prevention programs that include culture. In 2012, Les Whitbeck and colleagues (Whitbeck, Walls, & Welch, 2012) published a review of American Indian substance abuse prevention programs including empirical trials, promising programs, and grassroots programs. This review included four American Indian substance abuse prevention trials, the Life Skills Intervention (Johnson, Shamblen, Ogilvie, Collins, & Saylor, 2009), Think Smart (Johnson et al., 2007), Seventh Generation Program (Moran, 1998), and the Alaska People Awakening Intervention (Allen et al., 2009). These empirically validated EBPs provide evidence that blending Western science and theories with traditional knowledge and cultural values can be effective in addressing substance use in American Indian populations.