Reducing the risks for substance abuse
Subtitle: a lifespan approach
By: Raymond P. Daugherty, Carl Leukefeld.
Contributors: Leukefeld, Carl G.
Series: Prevention in practice library
Publisher: Plenum Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Alcoholism -- United States -- Prevention; Drug abuse -- United States -- Prevention; Behavior modification -- United States; Life cycle, Human -- United States
Description: Since about 1980, substance abuse prevention programs have taken a youth-based, "zero-tolerance" approach. Significant increases in abstinence have followed, but so have simultaneous increases in high-risk use.

Arguing that the basic assumptions of this approach are flawed, authors Raymond P. Daugherty and Carl Leukefeld offer a dynamic alternative: the Lifestyle Risk Reduction Model, which reshapes accepted alcohol and drug premises, messages, and strategies to make them relevant throughout the entire lifespan.

It will prove to be a valuable resource to clinicians, teachers, and students in alcoholism studies, public health, health psychology, behavioral medicine, consulting and counseling psychology, and sociology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-170) and index.