The purpose of this paper is to describe characteristics of substance abuse treatment counselors in the Republic of South Africa, including demographics, e
South Africa is now one of the most sought after tourist destinations and has attracted foreign investment from every major country around the world. Ironically, it is also emerging as one of the most lucrative countries for drug trafficking, dramatically increasing alcohol and substance abuse, ...
The association between substance abuse and school-based violence was examined in a non-clinical sample of 752 South African school-going adolescents. Substance abuse was examined in relation to alcohol abuse and the use of illicit substances in the past 12 months, with four types of school-...
Substance abuse is an enormous social problem in South Africa, as elsewhere. It is one of the focus areas of the Brain-Behaviour Initiative (BBI) at the University of Cape Town, which relates neuroscience and behavioural science to social issues. This ground-breaking book, which presents some ...
With the evidence of substance abuse amongst refugees found in the literature [15, 29], it is important to understand the prevalence of substance use amongst the millions of vul- nerable refugee youths. This will assist policy and decision makers in developing and implementing culturally appropri-...
Development and psychometric validation of a novel patient survey to assess perceived quality of substance abuse treatment in South Africa Subst. Abuse Treat. Prev. Policy, 10 (2015), p. 44, 10.1186/s13011-015-0040-3 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar Myers et al., 2018 B. Myers, C. Lund, C...
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Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment: implications of SAMHSA’s SBIRT initiative for substance abuse policy and practice. Addiction. 2017;112(suppl 2):110-117. doi:10.1111/add.13675 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 7. Agerwala SM, McCance-Katz EF. Integrating ...
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submit your manuscript | www.dovepress.com Dovepress Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation 2010:1 Dovepress An Introduction to Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation late 1990s, the main drugs of problematic use as measured by treatment demand were cocaine in North and South America, cannabis in Africa, ...