Assessing Drug Abuse Within And Across Communities

Author : National Institute on Drug Abuse
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ISBN 13 : 9781332252183
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Assessing Drug Abuse Within and Across Communities written by National Institute on Drug Abuse and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Assessing Drug Abuse Within and Across Communities: Community Epidemiology Surveillance Networks on Drug Abuse Drug abuse and addiction have a devastating impact on a community. They lead to increased rates of crime and violence, family disintegration, childhood developmental barriers, illness, and even death. Addiction is not discriminatory. It is an "equal opportunity destroyer" affecting all aspects of society. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) supports over 85 percent of the world's research on drug abuse and addiction. Through NIDA'S research program, much has been learned about how drugs affect us - what they do to our brains, our bodies, our behavior, our relationships, our communities, and our society. Great strides have been made in understanding the biological, behavioral, social, and environmental influences that place Individuals at risk for drug abuse and addiction. Importantly, research has also yielded major advances in preventing and treating drug abuse Communities can play an active role in preventing and reducing drug use in their own local environment. Science has taught us much about the fundamental principles underlying successful drug abuse prevention, principles that can be applied locally to both evaluate existing prevention efforts and develop new programs. These principles arc outlined in NIDA's science-based guide to drug abuse prevention, Preventing Drag Use Among Children and Adolescents-A Research-Based Guide, published last year. This booklet was specifically designed to aid communities in their local prevention efforts Understanding the local environment is essential if a community is to successfully address drug abuse problems. It sets the context in which both prevention and treatment programs must operate. Re-search has shown that to be maximally effective both prevention and treatment efforts must be tailored to current local needs. However, local drug abuse problems are not easy to detect, quantify, and categorize. Patterns change as new drugs become available, new combinations become popular, and users experiment with new ways of administering drugs. To help communities understand their local drug abuse problems. NIDA has developed this guidebook. It will be a useful tool as you develop a drug abuse epidemiologic surveillance system to assess local drug abuse patterns and trends. This model can be used by States, counties, cities, and communities. It is based on the work of NIDA'S Community Epidemiology Work Croup (CEWG), a national surveillance network composed of researchers from around the country that has been meeting biannually for more than 20 years to monitor drag use and abuse trends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.