Drug and Alcohol Use: Issues and Factors

ISBN-13: 9781489908902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 386 str.

Stanley Einstein

Opis

This book is the outcome of the First International Congress on Drugs and Alcohol to be held in Israel. Both the conference and this volume grew out of the need to overcome the specious man-made barriers which continue to separate intervention plans and efforts in the broad field of substance use and misuse. This need demands that all of us become aware not only of the differences which may separate our concerns, but also of the similarities in our goals and endeavors. We are obligated to draw together toward a common effort for the common good. The conference was designed to facilitate the exploration ot generic ssues. This volume is designed to document a variety of factors which are basic to the defining, selection, planning, implementation, and evaluation of substance use and misuse intervention. This book is not a traditional proceedings volume. Because the needs of a listening audience are quite different from those of the solitary reader, and the roles of a workshop or plenary session participant are also dissimilar from those of the reader, not all of the Congress presentations are included, and the articles that are included have undergone major revi- sions. Current intervention needs and options demand a broad spectrum of clearly defined roles for all who are or should be involved. Hence these issues, among others, served as guidelines in the preparation of the revised articles.

Spis treści

Intervening in the Use and Misuse of Drugs and Alcohol: Critical Issues — Specious Actions.- Self-Esteem and Drug Abuse.- The Multiple Risk Factors Hypothesis: An Integrating Concept of the Etiology of Drug Abuse.- Developmental Aspects of the Motivation to Drink: A Cross-Sectional Investigation.- Sensation Seeking, Anxiety, and Risk Taking in the Israeli Context.- Relationship between Heavy Drug and Alcohol Use and Problem Use among Adolescents.- The Social Networks of Drug Abusers before and after Treatment.- Drunkenness in the Old Testament: A Clue to the Great Jewish Drink Mystery.- Factors Governing Recruitment to and Maintenance of Smoking.- Social Pharmacology from a Macrosystematic Perspective.- Cooperation between the Police and Social Care in the Treatment of Alcohol and Family Violence Problems in Finland.- The Parent’s Movement: An American Grassroots Phenomenon.- Self-Identified Presenting Problems of Drug Abusers Entering Residential Treatment.- Stages in the Multifaceted Treatment of the Multiproblem Drug Abuser.- Staff and Treatment in a Statutory Outpatient Care Agency for Alcoholics in Helsinki, Finland.- Genesa: An Adunct to Art Therapy in the Treatment of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Clients.- Holistic Methods in Drug Abuse Treatment.- Marathon Group Therapy with Illicit Drug Users.- Dealing with the Relapse: A Relapse Inoculation Training Program.- Alcoholism — A Response of Minority Communities to Rejection of Their Cultural Identity by the Dominant Culture.- Problems of Community Denial on Recognition and Treatment of Alcoholism among Special Ethnic Populations in Los Angeles County.- When Are Support Systems Support Systems: A Study of Skid Row.- Family Treatment of Drug Abusers.- Family Therapy: A Treatment Approach with Substance Abusers in Inpatient and Residential Facilities.- Alcohol and Family Violence: The Treatment of Abusing Families.- Alcoholism Treatment: A Family Disease Model with Particular Reference to Inpatient Treatment for Family Members.- The Therapeutic Community Approach to Rehabilitation: Perspective and a Study of Effectiveness.- The Therapeutic Community in Retrospect and Prospect.- The Availability of Alcohol and Alcohol Problems: Some Theoretical Explanations and Empirical Consequences.- Evaluation as a Tool for Therapeutic Planning.- Assessment of Prevention Efforts: A Focus on Alcohol-Related Community Damage.- Metabolism through Alcohol Dehydrogenase Is Not a Prerequisite for Fatty Liver Induction by Alcohols.- Cerebral Atrophy in Chronic Alcoholic Patients.- Gasoline Sniffing in Northern Canada.