Reducing the risks for substance abuse

Description:

Since about 1980, substance abuse prevention programs have taken a youth-based, "zero-tolerance" approach. Significant increases in abstinence have followed, but so have simultaneous increases in high-risk use. Arguing that the basic assumptions of this approach are flawed, authors Raymond P. Daugherty and Carl Leukefeld offer a dynamic alternative: the Lifestyle Risk Reduction Model, which reshapes accepted alcohol and drug premises, messages, and strategies to make them relevant throughout the entire lifespan. It will prove to be a valuable resource to clinicians, teachers, and students in alcoholism studies, public health, health psychology, behavioral medicine, consulting and counseling psychology, and sociology.

subjects: Drug abuse,  Life cycle, Human,  Human Life cycle,  Alcoholism,  Prevention,  Behavior modification,  Prévention,  Gesundheitsvorsorge,  Life Cycle Stages,  Drogenabhängigkeit,  Toxicomanie,  Lebensalter,  Alkoholismus,  Substance-Related Disorders,  Alcoolisme,  Étapes de la vie,  Prevention & control,  Modification du comportement,  Behavior Therapy,  Alcoholism, prevention,  Drug abuse, prevention,  Substance abuse, prevention,  Clinical health psychology

Places: United States