All Resources for 'Community-Based Prevention'

The Power and Price of Survival: Understanding Resilience, Stress, and Trauma

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Book
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Mental Health

2nd Edition, 2011: A series of strength-based resources developed by Pamela Woll for the Great Lakes ATTC, to help prepare the civilian mental health and addiction treatment workforce to address post-deployment stress injuries. This series...

Are E-Cigarettes Really 'Healthier' Than Traditional Cigarettes?

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Scientific article
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Public Health

There is much debate as to whether e-cigarettes are in fact ‘better’ for you than traditional cigarettes because their potential adverse effects are only beginning to be researched. Combine this with the fact that, between 2011 and 2015...

"Effects of Drugs on Socio-Economic Conditions of Union Council Shoghore District Chitral, Pakistan"

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Scientific article
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Public Health
Policy
Law Enforcement
Border Control
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion

                                      Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations

Drug addiction is a pathological or abnormal condition which arises due to frequent or abnormal use of substances which affects human senses and decreased...

Drugs of Abuse: A DEA Resource Guide, 2017 Edition

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Book
Themes
Public Health

Education plays a critical role in preventing substance abuse. Drugs of Abuse, A DEA Resource Guide, is designed to be a reliable resource on the most commonly abused and misused drugs in the United States. This comprehensive guide provides...

Alcohol and Cancer: A Statement of the American Society of Clinical Oncology

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Public Health

Abstract

Alcohol drinking is an established risk factor for several malignancies, and it is a potentially modifiable risk factor for cancer. The Cancer Prevention Committee of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) believes that...

The Economic Burden of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Canada in 2013

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Scientific article
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Public Health
Law Enforcement

Aim

To estimate the economic burden and cost attributable to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in Canada in 2013.

Methods

This cost-of-illness study examined the impact of FASD on the material welfare of the Canadian society in 2013...

Alcohol Taxation Policy in Kyrgyzstan (2017)

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Book
Themes
Policy

Increasing the price of alcohol is one of the most effective policy measures to reduce overall consumption in a country, and hence to reduce the level of alcohol-related harm. Taxation is a common way to control the price of alcoholic...

Gender Differences in the Alcohol-Related Alterations in Cortical Activity

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Scientific article
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Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Populations
Men
Women

Background: Long-term alcohol use is known to harm brain functioning in adolescence. In the central nervous system, the effects of alcohol are particularly mediated by alterations in GABAergic neurotransmission. Combining simultaneous...

Measuring Improvement in Knowledge of Drug Policy Reforms Following a Police Education Program in Tijuana, Mexico

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Policy
Law Enforcement

Abstract

Background

Mexico’s 2009 “narcomenudeo reform” decriminalized small amounts of drugs, shifting some drug law enforcement to the states and mandating drug treatment diversion instead of incarceration. Data from Tijuana suggested...