Do therapist cultural characteristics influence the outcome of substance abuse treatment for Spanish-speaking adults?

Sociodemographic characteristics associated with alcohol use among low-income Mexican older adults

BACKGROUND Despite increasing concern about the quality of life of older adults, little is known about characteristics associated with health risk behaviors among older adults in middle-income countries. This study relied on unique longitudinal data to examine the relationship between sociodemographic characteristics and alcohol use among low-income older adults, one of the fastest-growing popu...

Facilitators and Barriers to Implementing Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) in Primary Care in Integrated Health Care Settings.

BACKGROUND Substance abuse in the United States is a serious public health concern impacting morbidity and mortality. However, systematic screening and intervention has not been widely adopted into routine practice by health care organizations and routine screening and intervention is not currently in place for primary care at Kaiser Permanente Colorado. Therefore, a formative evaluation was co...

Cultural difference and child abuse intervention with undocumented Spanish-speaking families in Los Angeles.

Substance Abuse in Aging Population

substance abuse' specially opiates and prescribed drugs are spreading among the older adults. Most of the time it begins as an attempt to medicate chronic pains, medical conditions and loneliness. In other instances, it simply is the continuation of a problem that begun in young adulthood. But scholars and specialists in both fields of Addiction and Gerontology, rather neglected this fast growi...

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Addiction is a global problem that is facing most of the countries throughout the world. The billions of dollars are the cost of drug addiction, in addition to health care costs and lack of human-resource productivity. Therapeutic actions in many cases do not lead to positive results. Therefore, the importance of preventative efforts and coping with the tendency to misuse substance is clearly u...