Sentences with phrase «alcohol intervention for»

With the rise in female drinking, public health officials need to step up alcohol interventions for young adult women, especially since there's such a wide variety of health problems associated with drinking, said Dr. Geetanjali Chander.

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Isaacs set himself up for post-prison opportunities by attending many programs offered at the prison, including «educational, vocational, life skills, aggression replacement, drug and alcohol prevention, business planning, stress management, youth awareness and delinquent intervention.»

In 2017, the top 10 regulatory interventions included ensuring alcohol ads are targeted responsibly online — especially on social media platforms where many users are under 18, which landed Diageo in trouble in 2016; acting against irresponsible gambling advertising; new food advertising restrictions for products which are high in fat, salt or sugar (HFSS); and addressing harmful gender stereotypes, for which a detailed report is due in the coming weeks.

Each LEA participating in the drug testing of students must develop policies and procedures to ensure that those students receive the assistance needed, including an assessment to determine the severity of the student's alcohol and drug problem and a recommendation for referral to intervention or treatment resources as appropriate.

Please pray for God's intervention with all families — particularly those struggling with alcohol, drug abuse, and mental illness — to enable them to successfully complete programs for recovery, and allow the reunification of foster children with safe and caring birth families.

Students were generally not referred to the campus health center for alcohol screening or intervention.

Silverberg said patients should be offered interventions for alcohol and smoking by their dermatologists.

Co-authors Cathy Sorichetti and Tamara Grundland emphasize that there are many promising prevention strategies including life skills training for middle schoolers, comprehensive community - based interventions addressing children, schools, and the larger community, education of parents about the risk of supplying alcohol to teenagers, and greater enforcement of laws prosecuting those who sell liquor to minors.

They found no significant difference between students who received an intervention and those who did not for alcohol consumption per week or month, frequency of heavy drinking, frequency of drinking days or alcohol - related problems.

More research is needed to determine the efficacy of alcohol interventions specifically for sorority members,» she said.

«Our findings underscore the critical need for early intervention and prevention with families who are at - risk due to alcohol problems.

A study care manager regularly called patients in the intervention group to provide basic psycho - education; encourage healthy habits (sleep, exercise, avoid excess alcohol); assess treatment preferences for anti-anxiety medications; monitor response to treatment; and inform their primary care physicians of their care preference and progress.

Most colleges also have a disciplinary process to adjudicate alcohol - related offenses and refer students with alcohol problems for brief interventions, but many fail to maintain such programs with an adequately trained staff.

«Even though tobacco shops have rarely been targeted by the police or community for intervention,» he added, «based on our data, we believe tobacco shops in urban communities of color should be regulated to improve community health in the same way as alcohol outlets and other public nuisances.»

Since 1993, Boston Medical Center's (BMC) Project ASSERT has offered alcohol and drug use screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment to patients treated for intoxication in the ED.

The authors have previously reported the effectiveness of the two interventions, Healthy Activity Programme (HAP) and Counselling for Alcohol Problems (CAP), at 3 months; however, the longer - term benefits of the interventions were previously unknown.

«Prenatal visits may present a good opportunity for screening and brief intervention regarding tobacco and particularly alcohol use,» noted co-author Deborah Hasin, PhD, professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health and in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center.

Professor Schumann concludes: «Identifying risk factors for early alcohol abuse is important in designing prevention and treatment interventions for alcohol addiction.»

The subjects were instructed to refrain from heavy exercise 24 hours before testing and followed the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP) preliminary instructions (no eating, drinking caffeine, smoking, or drinking alcohol for 2, 2, 2, or 6 hours, respectively) before the start of each intervention.

Virtual reality skills training for health care professionals in alcohol screening and brief intervention.

To start off, the subjects were tested for their skills in delivering alcohol screenings, brief interventions, and referrals using three different standardized patients to play the roles of someone who may be abusing alcohol.

She has also developed and evaluated interventions for preventing adolescent alcohol use and her general school - based health promotion approach constituted the frame - work for the national Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH) funded by NHLBI in 1986, the largest school - based intervention study to reduce cardiovascular risk through diet, activity and tobacco prevention.

The New Jersey Intoxicated Driving Program (IDP) is responsible for the administration of post-conviction interventions for individuals convicted of alcohol or drug - related driving under the influence (DUI) offenses.

Interesting study on the website of NCBI: OBJECTIVE: Various interventions have been implemented as components of sentencing for driving under the influence of alcohol.

It is an intervention program for 13 specific non-violent, misdemeanor infractions, such as petty theft under $ 300, trespassing, vandalism, alcohol use and disruption of campus.

Executive Director — Regional Programs Incorporated (RPI), Dayton, OH 1986 — 2010 Set the focus, direction, and business goals for this nonprofit drug and alcohol intervention programming organization, and successfully oversaw all staff recruitment and training initiatives for 10 paid personnel and 14 volunteers.

Screening and intervention for patients drinking alcohol at unhealthy levels is more effective when medical assistants are utilized as part of the health care team, especially with the skills and knowledge medical assistants have in providing patient education and interventions.1 Medical assistants can play a key role in screening for unhealthy alcohol use due to the nature of their responsibilities as active members of the health care team:

• Assisted in creating and implementing youth programs to meet the individual requirements of each participant • Engaged participants in conversation to determine what their specific needs are and provided feedback to youth worker • Provided support in determining the need for intervention in issues such as drug and alcohol abuse • Assisted participants in determining the type of services and resources they needed, and arranged for them to be made available • Acted as participants» advocate in front of social services and government departments

Guidance recommends interventions across sectors, including comprehensive sexuality education in schools; higher age limits for alcohol consumption; mandating seat - belts and helmets through laws; reducing access to and misuse of firearms; reducing indoor air pollution through cleaner cooking fuels; and increasing access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene.

Through diagnostic testing, interviewing, collateral contacts, and drug screening, we provide a succinct report that details the individual's history of substance abuse, symptoms of alcohol / drug use disorder (AUD — DSM - V), concomitant mental and physical health issues, family / parenting issues, legal issues, and a summary / recommendation for intervention / treatment.

Effectiveness of guided and unguided low - intensity internet interventions for adult alcohol misuse: a meta - analysis

This study allows one to assess the (cost --RRB- effectiveness of an internet - based intervention for reducing co-occurring alcohol misuse and depression symptoms simultaneously.

The Review Board's report, released in October 2008 found that the NT Intervention had made some positive changes in the Northern Territory, for instance in terms of increased police presence in communities, measures to reduce alcohol - related violence, improving quality and availability of housing, health and wellbeing of communities and education.

Methods and analysis This paper presents the protocol for a 3 - arm multicentre randomised controlled trial (RCT) to test the efficacy and cost - effectiveness of the combined internet - based self - help intervention Take Care of You (TCOY) to reduce alcohol misuse and depression symptoms in comparison with a waiting list control group and a comparable intervention focusing on problematic alcohol use only.

In the case of alcohol dependence, naltrexone can be administered along with psychosocial interventions designed to target addiction (for example, 12 step programmes, motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioural therapy relapse prevention, contingency management, and so on).

The first substudy is for those with an AUDIT ≥ 8 and a CES - D < 16 and will compare the alcohol - only intervention with the waiting list control condition.

Additional work is required to determine the reasons for non-attendance in families where there are maternal alcohol use problems in order to develop and target effective interventions.

However, significant differences were found between the control and full intervention groups for heavy alcohol use in the past year.

Assessment for Intervention of Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Perspectives of Classroom Teachers, Administrators, Caregivers, and Allied Professionals

Although hypothesized, no effects of intervention were observed for the lifetime prevalence of use of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, or other illicit drugs at age 18 years.

Infusing Early Intervention for Substance Use Into Community Mental Health Services for Transitioning Youth Taylor & Elizabeth (2011) Social Work in Mental Health, 9 (3) View Abstract Discusses the potential of effective alcohol and other drug (AOD) screening and early intervention practices for facilitating a healthy transition to adulthood for youth who experience considerable risk for substance abusIntervention for Substance Use Into Community Mental Health Services for Transitioning Youth Taylor & Elizabeth (2011) Social Work in Mental Health, 9 (3) View Abstract Discusses the potential of effective alcohol and other drug (AOD) screening and early intervention practices for facilitating a healthy transition to adulthood for youth who experience considerable risk for substance abusintervention practices for facilitating a healthy transition to adulthood for youth who experience considerable risk for substance abuse disorders.

The purpose of the trial is to evaluate the efficacy of using a family - based treatment program (Behaviour Exchange Systems Training; BEST Plus) versus a standard cognitive - behavioural individual treatment program for the youth, (Self Help for Alcohol / Other Drug problems and DEpression — Youth; SHADEY CBT), versus receiving both the family and the CBT intervention (COMBINED condition).

The project was designed as a randomised comparative trial of two interventions for youth and families, where the young person (12 to 25) presents with depression, anxiety, or alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems.

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The search strategy will include terms for participants, setting, intervention, study design54 and outcome (sourced from current Cochrane systematic reviews examining the effectiveness of tobacco, alcohol and illicit substance use interventions; see web only appendix 1 for MEDLINE search strategy).4 — 6 The search strategy will be tailored as required for implementation in other information sources.

For example, a tobacco - focused review which included any intervention type, classified interventions with a component of resilience content into different subgroups such as social competence or social influence interventions, finding evidence for both broad intervention approaches.6 For the alcohol - focused review, only universal interventions were included with such interventions grouped according to whether they targeted alcohol alone or targeted multiple substance types.5 While meta - analysis was not conducted due to the heterogeneity of studies, the review concluded that some psychosocial and developmental prevention programmes were effectiFor example, a tobacco - focused review which included any intervention type, classified interventions with a component of resilience content into different subgroups such as social competence or social influence interventions, finding evidence for both broad intervention approaches.6 For the alcohol - focused review, only universal interventions were included with such interventions grouped according to whether they targeted alcohol alone or targeted multiple substance types.5 While meta - analysis was not conducted due to the heterogeneity of studies, the review concluded that some psychosocial and developmental prevention programmes were effectifor both broad intervention approaches.6 For the alcohol - focused review, only universal interventions were included with such interventions grouped according to whether they targeted alcohol alone or targeted multiple substance types.5 While meta - analysis was not conducted due to the heterogeneity of studies, the review concluded that some psychosocial and developmental prevention programmes were effectiFor the alcohol - focused review, only universal interventions were included with such interventions grouped according to whether they targeted alcohol alone or targeted multiple substance types.5 While meta - analysis was not conducted due to the heterogeneity of studies, the review concluded that some psychosocial and developmental prevention programmes were effective.

Despite this associative evidence, to the authors» knowledge, existing systematic reviews assessing the effectiveness of school - based substance use interventions have not reported the effectiveness of universal resilience - based interventions on adolescent substance use.4 — 6, 37 Three existing Cochrane reviews have individually examined the efficacy of school - based tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use programmes.4 — 6 Such reviews have not reported outcomes for universal resilience - based interventions specifically, but have included such interventions in broader categories of intervention type for subgroup analysis.

(Note that while intervention group staff had significantly lower odds of reporting that they would seek professional help for alcohol problems than the control group at wave 1, there was a high ceiling generally.)

The BEST intervention was originally developed by Toumbourou and Bamberg as a professionally led, multifamily group education program for parents, with content focussed on Alcohol and Drug (AOD) use by adolescents.

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