Preventing Youth Substance Abuse in Your Community

Comparison of Residential and Therapeutic Community Centers in Preventing Substance Abuse Recurrence and Reducing Self-destructive Behaviors of Substance Users

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Substance abuse can be considered as a biological, psychological, social and spiritual phenomenon. Unfortunately, contemporary youth may turn to substance abuse to escape from individual and social problems. Substance abuse is one of the social and public health problems that imposes considerable burden on the community. Substance dependence leads to unemployment, crime, family problems, and tr...

A community prevention intervention to reduce youth from inhaling and ingesting harmful legal products.

Youth use of harmful legal products, including inhaling or ingesting everyday household products, prescription drugs, and over-the-counter drugs, constitutes a growing health problem for American society. As such, a single targeted approach to preventing such a drug problem in a community is unlikely to be sufficient to reduce use and abuse at the youth population level. Therefore, the primary ...

The Role of Educational Policy-Making in Changing Awareness and Attitude (Risk Perception) in Adolescents and the Youth in Preventing Substance Dependence

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to determine the role of educational policy-making in changing awareness and attitude (risk perception) in adolescents and the youth in preventing substance dependence. Method: This research was applicable in terms of purpose and the research method was a mixed method with the exploratory approach. At first, 15 experts in the field of education an...

A drug abuse prevention strategy for rural America.

This paper describes strategies for developing drug abuse prevention programs in rural communities, based on available evidence about factors contributing to drug abuse. Comprehensive interventions to prevent drug abuse and other youth problems are needed because drug abuse is entwined with other problem behaviors and stems from a complex set of social context factors. Community interventions m...