Title: Reducing the risks for substance abuse
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Drug abuse, Life cycle, Human, Human Life cycle, Alcoholism, Prevention, Behavior modification, Prévention, Gesundheitsvorsorge, Life Cycle Stages, Drogenabhängigkeit, Toxicomanie, Lebensalter, Alkoholismus, Substance-Related Disorders, Alcoolisme, Étapes de la vie, Prevention & control, Modification du comportement, Behavior Therapy, Alcoholism, prevention, Drug abuse, prevention, Substance abuse, prevention, Clinical health psychology
Places: United States
LC classification: HV5279 .D38 1998