Community Readiness for Drug Abuse Prevention


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Introduces the concept of community readiness for substance abuse prevention programming. Defines community readiness, provides a rationale for assessing a community's readiness prior to the planning or implementation of prevention activities, identifies seven factors for assessing community readiness, and offers strategies for increasing readiness factors found to be deficient. Case study. Intended for use with the handbook "Drug Abuse Prevention: What Works" and "Drug Abuse Prevention and Community Readiness: Training Facilitator's Manual."







NIDA Notes


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Encyclopedia of Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery


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This collection provides authoritative coverage of neurobiology of addiction, models of addiction, sociocultural perspectives on drug use, family and community factors, prevention theories and techniques, professional issues, the criminal justice system and substance abuse, assessment and diagnosis, and more.




Promising Strategies to Reduce Gun Violence


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Culmination of a survey and review conducted by a U.S. Department of Justice Work Group and COSMOS Corporation.




Gender and Sexual Identity


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The first comprehensive presentation of an explicitly transgender theory. This theory goes beyond feminist and queer theory by incorporating the idea of fluid embodiment and lived experience in conceptualizing gender and sexual identity. Beyond developing a formulation of transgender theory that incorporates the socially constructed, embodied, and self-constructed aspects of identity in the narrative of lived experiences, the authors discuss the implications of this “trans-identity theory” for theory, research, and practice.







Drug Abuse Prevention and Community Readiness


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Contains a 9-hour, modular training curriculum, designed for use by training facilitators in introducing prevention practitioners and community members to the basic theory of drug abuse prevention and 3 prevention strategies. Provides the skills to assess and increase the readiness of a community to launch a prevention effort. Includes talking points for lectures, instructions for conducting discussions and exercises, and handouts. An overview of the program addresses the learning objectives, intended audience, methods for use, time and organization, class size, trainer qualifications, training aids, room and equip. requirements, and resources.