Substance Abuse: The Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory-Third Edition (SASSI-3) The Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory – Third Edition (SASSI-A2) is a self-report questionnaire designed to help identify individuals who have a high probability of having a substance use disorder (Miller‚ 1997). It includes five face valid scales: Face Valid Alcohol‚ Face Valid Other Drugs‚ Family-Friends Risk‚ Attitudes‚ and Symptoms. It also includes five subtle scales: Obvious Attributes‚ Subtle Attributes
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Working with Alcohol and Drug Use: Exploring the Knowledge and Attitudes of Social Work Students Galvani‚ S. & Hughes‚ N. (2008). Working with alcohol and drug use: Exploring the knowledge and attitudes of social work students. British journal of social work‚ 40‚ 946-962. doi: 1010093/bjsw/ben137. Study Discussion The target population of this study was social work students. The study population initially consisted of one hundred and fifty-six‚ and finally one hundred and twenty-one‚ Birmingham
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Global Criteria Within the 12 core functions of substance abuse counseling‚ there are what is called global criteria for each function‚ which are the necessary skills a counselor needs to carry out each core function properly (Herdman‚ 2008). This essay focuses on four of the 12 core functions‚ including case management‚ crisis intervention‚ counseling‚ and treatment planning. Case management is the activities which bring services‚ agencies‚ resources‚ or people together within a planned framework
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Behavior modification is being used to treat drug addiction by applying aspects of the learning theory‚ and establishing ways to eliminate drug use as a positive reinforcer and withdrawal as a negative reinforce (Abadinsky‚ 2014). This form of treatment attempts to search for new positive reinforcers for drug users (Abadinsky‚ 2014). Since the learning theory is associated with behavior‚ it’s important that reinforcers are available strictly after a certain behavior is displayed in order for behavior
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the last decade‚ there’s been an increase in drug additions in Mexico‚ especially among the urban poor‚ and the treatment center anexos has been rapidly going up in numbers thought out the country. On the edge of Mexico City there’s a place called Serenity (Serenidad). Serenity is located in a two story building set behind a gated patio. It’s about 20 by 15 feet‚ fourteen men and two women live at Serenity. These people are self-describe alcoholics‚ drug addicts‚ schizophrenics‚ and neurotic or‚ more
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consuming exercise‚ it is easier to prevent our young people from getting into alcohol and substance use and abuse. Some of the roles of addiction counselor in community prevention include the following; Enabler In the enabler role‚ an addiction counselor helps communities become capable of coping with situations or stress of having members of the society battling substance use and abuse. Addiction counselor conveys hope‚ reducing resistance and ambivalence‚ recognizing and managing feelings
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with problems is by turning to both alcohol and drugs. Some people even look out suicide as a way out. The main reasons why people turn to a substance like drugs and alcohol is because they feel lonely‚ depressed‚ and they try to escape reality. When a person feels depressed‚ the only way he or she can cure that empty gap is by filling it with drugs and alcohol. Instead of turning to a loved one‚ they rather be alone and deal with their pain by using drugs and alcohol. There are times when a person reacts
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and consumes 75% of the world’s prescription drugs. That says a lot about the rate in which drugs are prescribed in the United States. In 2010‚ enough prescription painkillers were prescribed to medicate every American adult every 4 hours for 1 month. It seems to be the fix all for doctors today. There is a pill that cures almost every aliment one may have‚ but at what price? Why do we in the U.S. have such a high rate for taking prescription drugs? According to the CDC antidepressants were
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pain-relieving system in the body is the endogenous opioid system. The endogenous opioid system produces three opioids‚ which act as neurotransmitters to mediate and inhibit the transmission of pain stimulus (Holden‚ Jeong‚ and Forrest 2005). Opiate drugs act on receptors of the endogenous opioid systems
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KEY FACTS AND SUMMARY: In May 1‚ 1987 and Four members of Harvard Business School’s research on what strategies to communicate with young people on curtail drug use among Boston’s school-going population. Drug products reached the Boston market around 1985&1986 and Mayor Flynn make curtailing drug abuse a top priority. They had limited the scope of the study and use a methodology within their budget of $20‚000 and with appropriate research questions for study. Based on the findings‚ all Harvard
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