By Lawrence M. Scheier

Drug abuse is an enormous societal challenge that damages members and groups psychologically, bodily, socially, and economically. a method to mitigate those results is to avoid drug abuse earlier than it starts off, and there's strong proof that this is performed successfully. The target of this ebook is to assist researchers, practitioners, and coverage makers hinder drug abuse, basically between kids who both haven't used medicines earlier than or have simply began utilizing them.

Highlighting the massive strides that prevention technology has made long ago few a long time and what nonetheless should be larger understood, Lawrence Scheier, editor of the guide of Drug Use Etiology, has collected eminent specialists from quite a few disciplines to create this finished source. jointly, they distill what we all know approximately potent courses and describe suggestions to capitalize on protecting elements and curtail probability components in teenagers; hinder negative self-regulation and behavior problems, which could bring about drug abuse; advertise confident switch in households, faculties, and bigger groups; and enforce wide-scale and unique media campaigns.

The evidence-based drug prevention courses and methods defined during this e-book may also create secondary advantages through bettering total healthiness and wellbeing in contributors and groups.

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There are challenges in evaluating technology-based interventions in terms of accurately monitoring participants’ behaviors and dealing with the disparities that currently exist across populations in terms of availability and comfort with technology. For example, many teachers are probably much less familiar and at ease with certain technologies than their students. However, the l­earning challenges associated with the judicious application of technological advances can be overcome. AN OVERVIEW OF THIS HANDBOOK Critical information loses its impact unless it is well organized and presented to tell a compelling story.

Etiologic analyses of population data have provided many concepts important for understanding the outcomes of prevention interventions. 1 shows how the process of multifinality helps one understand how individuals exposed to the same risk factors can develop multiple divergent outcomes. 1 also shows how the process of equifinality operates to yield common maladaptive outcomes from divergent causes (Cicchetti & Blender, 2006; Cicchetti & Rogosch, 1996). 1. Multifinality and equifinality. 2. Schematic conceptualization of prevention science at the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

2. Schematic conceptualization of prevention science at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Type II translation research refers to translation research focused on factors associated with the adoption and utilization of scientifically validated interventions by service systems under controlled, uncontrolled, and uncontrollable conditions (Robertson, Sims, & Reider, 2012). Other researchers, for example, Khoury et al. (2007), have further distinguished translational research into Types III and IV.

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