School-based social skills training programs are among the most popular form of alcohol
misuse prevention strategies employed in the USA. This paper reviews published …

The resistance skills training (RST) program is perhaps the most popular form of alcohol
misuse prevention strategy currently used in schools. This approach came to dominate …

Alcohol in athletes mixes no better than alcohol in drivers. Robert Stainback's Alcohol and
Sport reveals the extent of the sport and alcohol relationship and how professionals can …

Abstract The Healthy for Life program was designed to positively influence the health
behaviors of middle school students in five related areas: alcohol, tobacco and marijuana …

Key to understanding drug misuse is an awareness of the full range of models that seek to
define, explain and treat the problem. This book covers the full breadth of medical, social …

Persons with AIDS (PWAs) are faced with the social isolation and discrimination that
accompanies a deviant and stigmatized status. In this reasearch, we used the labeling or …

Currently, the drug addiction literature is replete with micro‐level theories of addiction that
offer important insights into individual and small‐group processes leading to addiction …

dependence and, second, to inform about prevention, harm minimiza tion, treatment and
control, in order that professionals can identify, assess and work with different kinds of drug …

Conventional approaches to prevention fail to consider the needs of Homo ludens in a"
leisure society." The paper first considers the negative connotations of" games" and" …

The global new psychoactive substances (NPS) phenomenon has been facilitated by the
illicit supply thereof in China. In response, Chinese authorities updated laws and …