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.
Not exact matches
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 abus
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 abus
intervention 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.
Rehab 4 alcoholism Rehab 4 Alcoholism offers a free helpline and
intervention service
for people suffering from drug and
alcohol addiction.
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 effecti
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 effecti
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 effecti
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 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.
/ Education
for girls in India / Foetal
Alcohol Syndrome
interventions / programs?