Download or read book Psychosocial Constructs of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse written by Barry Stimmel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1983, in an attempt to provide a broader knowledge base to aid both treatment and prevention, experts examine topics such as the need for an holistic approach to therapy, sexual functioning, drug abusing youths in inner city neighbourhoods, the role of the family, and much more.
Download or read book Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-09-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estimates indicate that as many as 1 in 4 Americans will experience a mental health problem or will misuse alcohol or drugs in their lifetimes. These disorders are among the most highly stigmatized health conditions in the United States, and they remain barriers to full participation in society in areas as basic as education, housing, and employment. Improving the lives of people with mental health and substance abuse disorders has been a priority in the United States for more than 50 years. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 is considered a major turning point in America's efforts to improve behavioral healthcare. It ushered in an era of optimism and hope and laid the groundwork for the consumer movement and new models of recovery. The consumer movement gave voice to people with mental and substance use disorders and brought their perspectives and experience into national discussions about mental health. However over the same 50-year period, positive change in American public attitudes and beliefs about mental and substance use disorders has lagged behind these advances. Stigma is a complex social phenomenon based on a relationship between an attribute and a stereotype that assigns undesirable labels, qualities, and behaviors to a person with that attribute. Labeled individuals are then socially devalued, which leads to inequality and discrimination. This report contributes to national efforts to understand and change attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that can lead to stigma and discrimination. Changing stigma in a lasting way will require coordinated efforts, which are based on the best possible evidence, supported at the national level with multiyear funding, and planned and implemented by an effective coalition of representative stakeholders. Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders: The Evidence for Stigma Change explores stigma and discrimination faced by individuals with mental or substance use disorders and recommends effective strategies for reducing stigma and encouraging people to seek treatment and other supportive services. It offers a set of conclusions and recommendations about successful stigma change strategies and the research needed to inform and evaluate these efforts in the United States.
Download or read book Combining Medication and Psychosocial Treatments for Addictions written by Joseph Volpicelli and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2001-03-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use by addiction counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other professionals working with clients with addictions, this work provides a supported framework for managing biophysical treatment of alcohol and drug dependence. Compatible with cognitive-behavioral and 12-step models, BRENDA is a collaborative, case-management approach to treatment that has been demonstrated effective in more than 80 percent of alcohol-dependent referrals.
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Addictions written by Various Authors and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 1508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routledge Library Editions: Addictions brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a small series of six previously out-of-print titles, originally published between 1980 and 1995. The set covers a variety of perspectives and looks at a range of addictions including alcoholism, drug abuse and gambling.
Download or read book Controversies in Alcoholism and Substance Abuse written by Barry Stimmel and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alcohol and Substance Abuse in Women and Children written by Barry Stimmel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a timely volume that examines the problems of substance abuse in women and children, with a particular emphasis on the role played by the family in the development and perpetuation of the problem.
Download or read book Alcohol and Substance Abuse in Adolescence written by Judith Brook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely volume explores the possible reasons that young people turn to drugs, the most effective methods to manage those who are afflicted, and ways to educate youth to prevent their initial drug involvement.
Download or read book Cultural and Sociological Aspects of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse written by Barry Stimmel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly informative book on the sociocultural interactions between alcoholism and drug abuse, experts explore the relationship of such factors as ethnicity, family, religion, and gender to chemical abuse and address important implications for treatment.
Download or read book Conceptual Issues in Alcoholism and Substance Abuse written by Barry Stimmel and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely volume emphasizes the relevance of current, basic research to the clinical management of the substance abuser.
Download or read book Effects of Substance Abuse Treatment on AIDS Risk Behaviors written by Edward Gottheil and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-02-26 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug abuse has emerged as the leading factor associated with transmission of HIV, and AIDS is the leading cause of mortality among drug-dependent individuals. Through Effects of Substance Abuse Treatment on AIDS Risk Behaviors, you will discover how drug treatment programs are becoming instrumental in reducing the risks of HIV/AIDS among substance abusers. Needle sharing is a major contributor to contracting HIV/AIDS but, as this book shows you, sexual risk behaviors from sex-trade workers, as well as risky behaviors due to the influence of cocaine and methamphetamines, contribute to the spread of HIV/AIDS. From Effects of Substance Abuse Treatment on AIDS Risk Behaviors, you will discover drug abuse treatment methods that will reduce the number of injection episodes and reduce injection use in higher risk settings, such as shooting galleries, thereby reducing your clients’risk of infection. Effects of Substance Abuse Treatment on AIDS Risk Behaviors reveals the stark realities regarding substance abusers and HIV risk. Through this compelling book, you will gain new insight into how you can help drug abusers avoid contracting HIV/AIDS by: discussing intervention methods that do not adhere to abstinence-based treatment models, such as reducing a stimulant binge by one day examining the dangerous effects that methadone clinics, who discharge patients for cocaine use, can have on the reduction of risk behaviors among heroine addicts discovering the correlation that exists between the fact that opioid-dependent individuals who have more drug and legal problems are at a higher risk for AIDS risk behaviors With Effects of Substance Abuse Treatment on AIDS Risk Behaviors, you will discover how stimulant drug treatment in itself represents a potentially powerful HIV prevention method by allowing the individual to make more thoughtful decisions regarding their sexual behaviors. Through this insightful volume, you will also learn essential information pertaining to different regions of the country, allowing you to effectively tailor your treatment program for your community. For example, in urban areas of the Western United States, the greatest risk of HIV infection is from non-injected stimulants. Effects of Substance Abuse Treatment on AIDS Risk Behaviors will prove to you how drug treatment programs can significantly reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS and make lower infection rates a reality.
Download or read book Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the Affluent written by Barry Stimmel and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative volume addresses the problem of alcohol and drug abuse among the affluent. Experts explore the prevalence and patterns of abuse among the "privileged." Important and revealing data is examined concerning the appropriateness of existing forms of treatment and the effectiveness of the therapeutic process. Topics of particular interest and timeliness include drug use among affluent adolescents, cocaine use and abuse, and the increasing incidence of substance abuse among physicians.
Download or read book The Effectiveness of Social Interventions for Homeless Substance Abusers written by Gerald Stahler and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource is devoted exclusively to reporting the results of rigorous research concerning substance abuse treatment outcomes for homeless persons. The Effectiveness of Social Interventions for Homeless Substance Abusers reveals that while dropout rates are high for this population, it is essential to develop treatment programs that not only focus on the addiction, but also address the tangible needs of the homeless, notably housing, income support, and employment.
Download or read book The Integration of Pharmacological and Nonpharmacological Treatments in Drug Alcohol Addictions written by Norman S Miller and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1997-12-04 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Integration of Pharmacological and Nonpharmacological Treatments in Drug/Alcohol Addictions, you?ll discover how traditional “clean and sober” recovery methods are being combined with “drug solutions” to successfully treat patients with addictive disorders. Up-to-date and filled with practical research, its integrated approach shows how you can significantly reduce morbidity and mortality due to long-term addiction. Providing the groundwork for future developments in integrated forms of treatment, The Integrations of Pharmacological and Nonpharmacological Treatments in Drug/Alcohol Addictions combines research and practice to give you the evaluative tools you need to move from an “all or nothing” approach to a level of balanced tolerance between “good and bad” when you and your patients are searching for a successful regimen of treatment. The in-depth studies will guide you in carefully rethinking the basic tenets of addictive disorder treatment. Specifically, you?ll read about: the integration of generalized vulnerability to drug and alcohol addiction psychopharmacotherapy for addictive and comorbid disorders psychosocial perspectives on integrating treatments for methamphetamine addiction integrating pharmacotherapies in existing alcoholic treatment programs the integrations of research in pharmacotherapy Contemporary research has taught us some humbling lessons--namely, that addictive disorders are complex biopsychosocial entities and not simple “either/or” cases. The Integration of Pharmacological and Nonpharmacological Treatments in Drug/Alcohol Addictions explores the newly emerging middle ground in addictive disorder treatment. You?ll find that it gives you sharper definitions of abstinence, recovery, and therapy and helps you best serve those patients whose needs lie somewhere between prescription and detoxification.
Download or read book What Works In Drug Abuse Epidemiology written by Blanche Frank and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1992-01-20 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent overview of the state-of-the-art drug abuse epidemiology provides the necessary information to approach the first step in solving the drug abuse problem--describing and identifying all the elements that contribute to it. These lively and descriptive accounts of drug abuse epidemiology guide drug abuse researchers, public health experts, and social scientists as they gather and evaluate critical drug abuse information for the particular population they serve. Authoritative contributors offer practical advice regarding what works in drug abuse epidemiology, what doesn’t work, and the reasons why. First-hand knowledge on ethnographic strategies, surveillance techniques, and practical approaches for professionals, previously with few resources and little expertise, will keep them on the cutting edge of this field. What Works in Drug Abuse Epidemiology provides a variety of examples of epidemiologic research methods concentrating on three major themes. The approaches and findings of epidemiological efforts nationally and internationally are presented, demonstrating the adaptability of methods under the varying cultural and political climates of the United States, Mexico, Great Britain, and European countries. Chapters are included which offer strategies for studying hard-to-reach populations that are especially at risk, specifically black youth living in ghettos and homeless people in public shelters. Particularly useful to professionals developing epidemiological strategies are discussions of creative, non-traditional studies for such problems as designer drugs, and drug use on the streets of New York City which assist drug abuse epidemiologists in developing strategies to get at the heart of specific drug abuse problems.
Download or read book Eating Disorders Overeating and Pathological Attachment to Food written by Mark Gold and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-09-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CDC has reported that obesity is second only to tobacco as the leading cause of associative deaths in America. Can both be types of substance abuse? A decade ago, scientists hypothesized that loss of control over eating—which results in obesity—may be a form of addictive behavior. Using direct evidence gathered by the nation’s leading experts, Eating Disorders, Overeating, and Pathological Attachment to Food: Independent or Addictive Disorders? examines the relationship between overeating and addiction. In this text, you’ll find case studies, tables, figures, and analyses supporting the hypothesis that there are important similarities between highly desirable foods and the classic addictive substances. Researchers have only recently come to a consensus that obesity is a disease, but the debate continues as to whether it is related to depression, personality disorders, or addictions. In Eating Disorders, Overeating, and Pathological Attachment to Food, you will gain new insight on: the social and environmental factors related to eating disorders problem drinking and eating disorders from a gendered perspective in a college student population possible neural interconnections between eating messengers and targets for drugs of abuse neuroimaging studies on somatosensory cortex changes and hypothalamus reward responses weight gain following supervised abstinence from drugs and alcohol With overeating and obesity on the rise, Eating Disorders, Overeating, and Pathological Attachment to Food offers new hope in the quest to help patients and clients successfully conquer their eating disorders and/or substance addictions without substituting one for another. This book is a step forward for concerted research toward a better understanding of cravings, which can lead to new therapeutic options more suited toward eating disorders and drug addiction.
Download or read book Addiction Potential of Abused Drugs and Drug Classes written by Barry Stimmel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increase your awareness of the relative addiction liabilities of various drugs and drug classes that are commonly abused. A timely and masterful new book, Addiction Potential of Abused Drugs and Drug Classes clarifies, in contemporary terminology, the state of addiction liability of cocaine, opiates, alcohol, sedative-hypnotics, nicotine, anxiolytics, marijuana, inhalants and anesthetics, and PCP and hallucinogens--the nine drugs that are most abused today. Authorities combine their research expertise with the available scientific literature to evaluate those factors which contribute to the addictive qualities of drugs. Specific chapters highlight the positive and negative reinforcement qualities that make drugs rewarding, focus on the two major subtypes of alcoholics, and cover the neuroanatomical and neurochemical bases of psychological dependence, the greatest contributing factor to drug addiction. An essential new resource for scientists, clinicians, and administrators, Addiction Potential of Abused Drugs and Drug Classes also highlights those areas where more work is needed in order to understand how individual drugs affect the processes of dependence, tolerance, and addiction, so that adequate treatment of these disorders can be discovered. The book was written for teachers and researchers in the chemical dependency field, to provide an up-to-date review of the literature. In addition, physicians, nurses, and pharmacists will find the book to be valuable as an update on the relative addiction strengths of abused drugs. Finally, treatment counselors and professionals with some knowledge of physiology and pharmacology will be interested in the book because of its relevance to the clinical treatment of chemically-dependent patients.
Download or read book Intensive Outpatient Treatment for the Addictions written by Edward Gottheil and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1997-04-25 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intensive Outpatient Treatment for the Addictions provides descriptions, discussions, and the first outcome evaluations of the new intensive outpatient treatment modality. Giving you a general history and discussion of key principles; detailed descriptions of program procedures and follow-up data; a study of the characteristics of outcomes of early dropouts; and a comparison between intensive outpatient programs and traditional programs, this book will help government, HMO, and other substance abuse treatment planners and managers in designing the structure and services within their treatment delivery systems. Based on clinical observations and reports, intensive outpatient treatment approaches have quickly become common, even preferred, practice. This speedy acceptance occurred, however, without accompanying research evaluation and support. Intensive Outpatient Treatment for the Addictions provides the evaluation of results and the descriptions of principles and procedures you need to understand and conduct intensive outpatient treatment. Inside this resource you?ll find: a randomized controlled comparison of intensive outpatient treatment and individual counseling a comparison of the outcome of six intensive outpatient treatment and ten traditional programs an assessment of readiness for change stage in relation to improvement as measured by the Addiction Severity Index treatment evaluation methodology outcomes of substance abuse treatment Rather than question whether intensive outpatient treatment is better than traditional treatment, however, the important issue for further research is more likely to be which patients do better in which modalities. Intensive Outpatient Treatment for the Addictions allows you to help your patients by showing you how to design and provide the treatment delivery system that will be most effective.
