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22 Cards in this Set
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3 Goals of Drug Prevention |
1. Keep disease of addiction from starting 2. Stop drug use as soon as it starts 3. Reverse Progression of use and restore health |
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Methods of Drug Prevention |
1. Supply Reduction 2. Demand Reduction 3. Harm Reduction |
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Supply Reduction: |
reduce availability of drugs stop drugs from entering the U.S. 10-15% of drugs are kept off the street b/c of this |
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Primary Prevention: |
a type of demand reduction; prevents the initial use (ex. helping young people refuse drugs) |
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Secondary Prevention: |
a type of demand reduction; stop use once it has started |
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Tertiary Prevention: |
a type of demand reduction; stop further damage from use |
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Harm Reduction: |
A society-wide approach to drug use and/or addiction that focuses on reducing the harm experienced by the drug user as well as the harm to society. Ex. Hepatitis from hypodermic needles |
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Methadone Maintenance |
the most successful of the harm-reductiontechniques |
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Temperance vs. Prohibition |
Conflicts between moderate use and legal use Prohibition seems to run a 70-year cycle in the US Over the past 2 decades most states have raised the drinking age and lowered the legal limit Prohibition decreased health problems, domestic violence, certain crimes, and consumption, organized crime myth |
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Amethyst Initiative |
a petition movement interested in lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18. Research consistently found the effectiveness of raising the drinking age to 21. |
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Scare Tactics and Drug Information Programs |
- drug use spread from the ghettos to the middle class from the 1960s to the 70s - early prevention provided knowledge - adding scare tactics distorted the information (giving false info just to scare them) - training often lacks for teachers - matching information to developmental age |
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Skill Building and Resiliency Programs: |
- General Competency Building - Coping (Resisting Skills) - Reinforcing Protective Factors - Address and Reverse Risk Factors - Support System Development - Changing the Environment |
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General Competency Building |
program focuses on building self-esteem, socially acceptable behaviors, decision making, assertiveness, problem-solving, vocational skills |
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Coping (Resisting Skills) |
program that provides parenting skills, anger management, stress management, breathing techniques |
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Reinforcing Protective Factors |
Program that helps give optimism, empathy, insight, intellectual competence, and self -esteem to help reinforce these in a person helps protect them against addiction and drug abuse |
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Address and Reverse Risk Factors |
Early aggressive/oppositional behavior, poverty, lack of parental supervision, drug abusing peers |
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Support System Development |
telephone reassure for seniors, homework hotlines, after school programs |
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Changing the Environment |
Program that is looking to the social and environmental influences on drug use assessing needs of community patterns of drug abuse Coordinating existing services (to fill the gaps), Changing laws and public policy (reduce availability) Increase in funding (family, schools, community preventative services), Community-wide training and planning |
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Examples of Stages of Life with Drug Abuse Present |
Pregnant woman using drugs, teenager offered alcohol to celebrate, College student who makes themselves vomit 10x/week, young mother who hides from her children to smoke meth, IV drug user who infects partner with HIV, 50 year old salesperson who drinks on the road to combine loneliness, the 70 something who gets prescription meds for arthritis pain |
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Drug Prevention Availability at all Stages of Life |
Prenatal care, parental supervision education, nutritional education and counseling, safe sex education, EAP(employee Assistance Program), Senior education on drug interactions |
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Skill Building and Resiliency Programs |
general competency building, coping, reinforcing protective factors, address and reverse risk factors, support system development |
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Coping (Resisting Skills) |
{arenting classes, anger management, stress management, breathing techniques) |
