Preventing Harmful Substance Use

The Evidence Base for Policy and Practice
Ed. by Paul Grünewald, Wendy Loxley, John Toumbourou et al.

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Produktbeschreibung

The prevention of harm from drug use, both legal and illegal, is a major concern to government departments and clinicians throughout the world. Recently, much new research has been conducted regarding global levels and patterns of drug related harm, on common risk factors with other social problems (e.g. mental health, crime) and on the effectiveness of wide range of intervention strategies. There is a need to summarise and synthesise this new knowledge for use in a range of disciplines. Preventing Harmful Substance Use offers the most comprehensive and up to date advice available on the prevention of drug and alcohol abuse. Contributors provide authoritative, science based reviews of knowledge on their areas of expertise, and make clear recommendations for the future of prevention policy and practice. A final section draws the work together and offers a framework for an integrated science of prevention.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 915g
• ISBN-13: 9780470092286
• ISBN-10: 0470092289
• Artikelnr.: 13481943

Autorenporträt

Paul J. Gruenewald is a Senior Research Scientists and Scientific Director of Prevention Research Center (PRC) in Berkeley, California, a division of the US-based Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE). Research at PIRE is funded by grants and contracts from the National Institutes of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, and other national, state, local and private funding agencies. Dr Gruenewald is Principal Investigator of a Center grant funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to study "Environmental Approaches to Prevention" (P60-AA906282) and a Merit award recipient for his studies of "Alcohol Outlets and Violence" (R37-AA912927). He is currently also Director of the PIRE-based Spatial Systems Group, a group that focuses on ecological studies of alcohol-and drug-related problems. He has published widely in the areas of alcohol policy and community prevention. He is well known for his application of rigorous mathematical and statistical approaches to the analysis of community level problems related to alcohol use, drugs and crime. Wendy Loxley is an Associate Professor at the National Drug Research Institute, at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia, where she has been employed for fifteen years. Much of her early research career was concerned with addressing the risk of blood-borne viruses to Australian injecting drug users, and she has been involved in a number of large quantitative and smaller qualitative studies exploring this issue. Other research experiences include monitoring illicit drug use among police detainees, the evaluation of community-based approaches to drug law enforcement, and the use of testing and vaccination to prevent hepatitis C and other blood-borne viruses among injectors. She was selected by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing to lead the evaluation of the Community Partnerships Initiative which was aimed at the development of community-based approaches to primary prevention of illicit drug use in young people. More recently, she was the first principal investigator on a commission for the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing which undertook a major literature review of the evidence relating to the prevention of drug use, risk and harm in Australia, She is the first author of the two volumes-Monograph and Summary-which have recently been published from this work. Tim Stockwell is currently Director of the Centre for Addictions Research of BC, Canada, and, until mid-2004, was Director of Australia's National Drug Research Institute based at Curtin University in Western Australia. He recently co-edited the critically acclaimed Wiley book International Handbook of Alcohol Dependence and Problems with Nick Heather and Tim Peters. he has published widely in the field of addiction studies and has particular expertise in the areas of alcohol and other drug epidemiology and prevention policy. He was Regional Editor for Australasia of the International Journal Addiction for six years. He was until recently a member of Australia's National Expert Advisory Committee on Alcohol, a Director of Australia's Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation and member of the World Health Organization's Alcohol Policy and Strategy Advisory Committee. He obtained his first degree in Psychology and Philosophy at Oxford University, a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Surrey and a doctorate at the Institute of Psychiatry, the University of London. John Winston Toumbourou is Associate Professor at the Department of Pediatrics, University of Melbourne, and a Senior Researcher at the Center for Adolescent Health, within the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. John is a founding member and the past Chair of the College of Health Psychologists within the Australian Psychological Society. He is a Principal Investigator on a number of studies investigating healthy youth development, including the Australian Temperament Project (investigating the role of childhood temperament and behaviour in the prediction of adolescent substance use, delinquency and depression), and the International Youth Development study (a collaborative longitudinal study with the Social Development Research Group at the University of Washington). John has been involved in the development of a number of youth health promotion programmes including the Chronic Illness Peer Support Program (Victorian Public Health Award 1999), the Behaviour Exchange Systems Training Program (targeting families experiencing youth substance abuse), Program for Parents (a national youth suicide prevention programme demonstrating success in reducing early youth delinquency and substance use) and Communities that Care (a community mobilisation programme targeting crime prevention and substance abuse Prevention). John has been prominent in developing literature reviews and policy recommendations relevant to developmental prevention through the Victorian Premier's Drug Prevention Council Drug Info Clearinghouse and within the consortium that produced the recent Prevention Monograph summarising the evidence base for the Australian Commonwealth Government's Prevention Agenda.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Editors ix
Contributors xi
Preface xv
Acknowledgements xvii
SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION 1
Editors: Tim Stockwell, Paul J. Gruenewald, John W. Toumbourou and Wendy
Loxley
1.1 Preventing Risky Drug Use and Related Harms: The Need for a Synthesis
of New Knowledge 3
Tim Stockwell, Paul J. Gruenewald, John W. Toumbourou and Wendy Loxley
SECTION 2 PATTERNS OF RISK AND RELATED HARMS 17
Editor: Tim Stockwell
2.1 Introduction 19
Tim Stockwell
2.2 The Global Burden of Disease Attributable to Alcohol, Tobacco and
Illicit Drugs 25
Jurgen Rehm and Robin Room
2.3 Substance Use and Mental Health in Longitudinal Perspective 43
Maree Teesson, Louisa Degenhardt, Wayne Hall, Michael Lynskey, John W.
Toumbourou and George Patton
2.4 Predicting Developmentally Harmful Substance Use 53
John W. Toumbourou and Richard F. Catalano
2.5 Population Ecologies of Drug Use, Drinking and Related Problems 67
Elizabeth LaScala, Bridget Freisthler and Paul J. Gruenewald
SECTION 3 INTERVENTIONS FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS 79
Editor: John W. Toumbourou
3.1 Introduction 81
John W. Toumbourou
3.2 What Do We Know about Preventing Drug-Related Harm through Social
Developmental Intervention with Children and Young People? 87
John W. Toumbourou, Jo Williams, Elizabeth Waters and George Patton
3.3 The Evidence Base for School Drug Education Interventions 101
Nyanda McBride
3.4 Alcohol Policy and Youth Drinking: Overview of Effective Interventions
for Young People 113
Joel W. Grube and Peter Nygaard
3.5 Testing a Community Prevention Focused Model of Coalition Functioning
and Sustainability: A Comprehensive Study of Communities That Care in
Pennsylvania 129
Mark T. Greenberg, Mark E. Feinberg, Brendan J. Gomez and D. Wayne Osgood
SECTION 4 INTERVENTIONS IN THE COMMUNITY: ILLUSTRATIVE CASE STUDIES 143
Editor: Paul J. Gruenewald
4.1 Introduction 145
Paul J. Gruenewald
4.2 Community Systems and Ecologies of Drug and Alcohol Problems 149
Harold D. Holder, Andrew Treno and David Levy
4.3 Violence Prevention in Licensed Premises 163
Ben Haines and Kathryn Graham
4.4 Application of Evidence-Based Approaches to Community Interventions 177
Andrew J. Treno, Juliet P. Lee, Bridget Freisthler, Lillian G. Remer and
Paul J. Gruenewald
4.5 Preventing Alcohol and Other Drug Problems in the Workplace 191
Richard Midford, Fredrik Welander and Steve Allsop
4.6 Effects of a Community Action Program on Problems Related to Alcohol
Consumption at Licensed Premises 207
Eva Wallin and Sven Andreasson
4.7 Strategies for Community-Based Drug Law Enforcement: From Prohibition
to Harm Reduction 225
Christopher Canty, Adam Sutton and Stephen James
SECTION 5 LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY PERSPECTIVES ON THE PREVENTION OF
RISKY DRUG USE AND HARM 237
Editor: Wendy Loxley
5.1 Introduction 239
Wendy Loxley
5.2 Regulating Tobacco to Minimise Harms 245
Jonathan Liberman and Ron Borland
5.3 Intelligence-Led Regulation of Licensed Premises 257
Neil Donnelly and Suzanne Briscoe
5.4 Deterrence Theory and the Limitations of Criminal Penalties for
Cannabis Use 267
Simon Lenton
5.5 Interventions for Illicit Drug Users Within the Criminal Justice
System: AReview of Some Programmes in Australia, the United Kingdom and the
United States 279
Wendy Loxley
5.6 Social Ecology and the Invention of New Regulatory Strategies for
Preventing Drug and Alcohol Problems 291
Bridget Freisthler and Paul J. Gruenewald
SECTION 6 THE EVIDENCE BASE FOR PREVENTION IN BROAD PERSPECTIVE 307
Editor: Paul J. Gruenewald
6.1 Introduction 309
Paul J. Gruenewald
6.2 Whatis "Evidence", and Can We Provide It? 313
Robert F. Saltz
6.3 US Policy on Illegal Drugs: What We Don't Know Keeps Hurting us--A
Perspective on Future Research Needs 325
James C. Anthony
6.4 Preventing Tobacco Use and Harm: What Is Evidence Based Policy? 337
Sandra Younie, Michelle Scollo, David Hill and Ron Borland
6.5 Moving Toward a Common Evidence Base for Alcohol and Other Drug
Prevention Policy 351
Harold D. Holder and Andrew J. Treno
6.6 The Evidence Base for Preventing the Spread of Blood-Borne Diseases
within and from Populations of Injecting Drug Users 367
Marcia Russell and Susan Carruthers
6.7 The Evidence Base for Responding to Substance Misuse in Indigenous
Minority Populations 381
Dennis Gray and Sherry Saggers
SECTION 7 FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR PREVENTION POLICY AND RESEARCH 395
Editor: Tim Stockwell
7.1 Introduction 397
Tim Stockwell
7.2 Investing for Cost-Effectiveness in the Face of Uncertainty: Applying
Financial Portfolio Optimization to Prevention Programming 401
Jonathan P. Caulkins
7.3 How Should Governments Spend the Drug Prevention Dollar?: ABuyer's
Guide 415
Ted R. Miller and Delia Hendrie
7.4 Key Moments in the Ethnography of Drug-Related Harm: Reality Checks for
Policy-Makers? 433
David Moore
7.5 Recommendations for New Directions in the Prevention of Risky Substance
Use and Related Harms 443
Tim Stockwell, Paul J. Gruenewald, John W. Toumbourou and Wendy Loxley
Index 465

Rezensionen

"...recommend this volume to anyone with an interest in preventing...substance abuse." ( Addiction , June 2006)