[PDF] Promising Practices And Strategies To Reduce Alcohol And Substance Abuse Among American Indians And Alaska Natives eBook

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Page : 54 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 2001-12-01
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ISBN : 9780756715991

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The DoJ supports the efforts of tribal governments to develop comprehensive strategies to address alcohol and substance abuse and related crime. Such strategies draw people together to act in unison to build a partnership composed of tribal leaders, the tribal court, prosecutors, law enforce. agents, corrections personnel, spiritual leaders and tribal members. The Programs showcased here represent 3 types of initiatives designed to reduce alcohol abuse and increase community safety: efforts that control the availability of alcohol within a tribal jurisdiction; educational and treat. efforts; and efforts that reduce the social and environ. factors that increase the risk of harm to the individual and community.

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 27,69 MB
Release : 2004-03-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309089352

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Alcohol use by young people is extremely dangerous - both to themselves and society at large. Underage alcohol use is associated with traffic fatalities, violence, unsafe sex, suicide, educational failure, and other problem behaviors that diminish the prospects of future success, as well as health risks â€" and the earlier teens start drinking, the greater the danger. Despite these serious concerns, the media continues to make drinking look attractive to youth, and it remains possible and even easy for teenagers to get access to alcohol. Why is this dangerous behavior so pervasive? What can be done to prevent it? What will work and who is responsible for making sure it happens? Reducing Underage Drinking addresses these questions and proposes a new way to combat underage alcohol use. It explores the ways in which may different individuals and groups contribute to the problem and how they can be enlisted to prevent it. Reducing Underage Drinking will serve as both a game plan and a call to arms for anyone with an investment in youth health and safety.

Author : Laurence Armand French Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 2000-01-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0313003106

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Substance abuse is a major health and social problem plaguing Native Americans both historically and today. After presenting the social and psychological factors that have contributed to Native American addictions and the patterns of behavior and circumstances associated with this complex and widespread problem, French discusses the treatment, intervention, and prevention issues facing therapists. He also explores the development and consequences of a new form of addiction, compulsive gambling, focusing on its relationship to substance abuse. A major contribution of this volume is its review and critique of regulatory acts documenting federal policy.

Author : Steve Sussman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1316943054

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Substance and Behavioral Addictions: Concepts, Causes, and Cures presents the concepts, etiology, assessment, prevention, and cessation of substance (tobacco, alcohol, other drugs, and food) and behavioral (gambling, Internet, shopping, love, sex, exercise, and work) addictions. The text provides a novel and integrative appetitive motivation framework of addiction, while acknowledging and referencing multi-level influences on addiction, such as neurobiological, cognitive, and micro-social and macro-social/physical environmental. The book discusses concurrent and substitute addiction, and offers prevention and treatment solutions, which are presented from a more integrative perspective than traditional presentations. This is an ideal text for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, practitioners, and researchers.