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What is primary prevention?
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- programs aimed at young people who have not yet tried the substance.
- teach people how to percieve drugs and the potential conseuqences. - but must avoid giving out information that encourages drug usage. |
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What is secondary prevention?
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- programs designed for people who have tried the drug.
- the main goal is to prevent the person from using other drugs. - college programs fall into this category |
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What is tertiary prevention?
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- goal is relapse prevention for people who have already experienced drug abuse.
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What is considered the new continuum of care?
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- includes prevention, treatment and maintenance. efforts are categorized according to the intended target population.
- universal- an entire popluation, ex a school or community - selective- groups within the population that are deemed to be at high risk. indicated- individual |
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What is the Knowledge-Attitudes-Behavior Model?
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- a prevention program in schools
- performed by police men or former users to try and scare kids into not doing drugs. - approach is to change the knowledge of kids, which in turn with change their attitude towards drugs which in turn will change their behaviour towards the drug. - negative effects: these programs in fact educated kids on different drugs and actually increased drug use. - possible goal is abstinence |
