The debating of, and agreement upon, a set of agreed ethical principles in the alcohol and other drug (AOD) sector is an important development in the growth of the field and a crucial platform for ...doi:10.1080/09595230500404160Dr Peter Miller...
Program components which address life skills, vocational training, AOD use, and mental health appear to positively impact criminal justice outcomes. Criminal justice outcomes were the most commonly reported, and while we identified a reduction in parole revocations and reincarceration, outcomes were ...
Reduction of alcohol-related harm on United States college campuses: The use of personal feedback interventions This paper reviews research evaluating personalised feedback interventions (PFIs) for reducing the harms associated with alcohol abuse among US college stu... HR White - 《International Journ...
In 1997, the total expenditure for treatment of substance abuse was $11.9 billion in contrast to the social costs of $294 billion estimated for that year [3]. In addition, substance abuse is a contributing factor in child abuse and neglect cases for 40% or more of the 1.2 million annual ...
Provision of harm reduction information about how to groin inject As previously mentioned, the provision of ‘how to’ booklets currently constitutes the default response for most AOD services in the UK. At a simple level, supplying such information might be seen as supporting an individual's auto...
Harm ReductionConsequence AnalysisGiven the increasing numbers of people in need of treatment for problems associated with Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) problems and the concomitant likelihood that social worker caseloads currently reflect this increase, a critical analysis of social work student attitudes...
AOD availabilityHarm-reduction programs, first developed in an attempt to mitigate the adverse consequences of illicit drug use, can be applied to alcohol-prevention programs as well. In fact, the movement toward harm reduction in illicit drug prevention may be closely paralleled by a similar trend...