Drug Abuse Prevention: A School and Community PartnershipUsing an evidence-based approach, Drug Abuse Prevention: A School and Community Partnership, Third Edition teaches students and practitioners the important concepts and skills needed to design effective drug prevention programs. Written to cover more than just the facts about drugs, this text provides a background of drug use and abuse, presents the principles and skills of prevention, with particular focus on adolescents and school settings, and reinforces the importance of schools forming community partnerships with key institutions and the application of policy tools to enhance the impact of education alone. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition. |
Contents
Chapter 1 An Introduction to Drug Education | 2 |
Background and Setting | 16 |
Fugitives from the War on Drugs | 30 |
Chapter 4 Other Drugs Mostly Legal | 60 |
Chapter 5 Other Drugs Mostly Illegal | 76 |
Chapter 6 Focus on the Community | 100 |
Chapter 7 Focus on the Individual | 126 |
Chapter 8 Focus on the Schools | 152 |
Chapter 10 Public Policy and Drug Abuse Prevention | 212 |
Chapter 11 Early Intervention with Drug Abuse and Related Problems | 236 |
Chapter 12 Treatment of Alcohol Tobacco and Drug Addiction | 264 |
Chapter 13 Needs Assessment and Program Evaluation | 286 |
Examples of School Drug Policies | 307 |
Drug Abuse Prevention Practice Code of Ethics | 309 |
Glossary | 311 |
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