Alcohol and drug misuse : a guide for health and social care professionals
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat41117
Rassein, Hussein G.
(2nd ed.)
--New York, NY:
Routledge
, c2018.
- Call Number
- WM 274 R228a 2018
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Call Number
- WM 274 R228a 2018
- Author
- Rassein, Hussein G.
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 413 p.
- ISBN
- 9781138227576
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Addiction Medicine
- Harm Reduction
- Health Policy
- Substance-Related Disorders
- Substance-Related Disorders - prevention & control
- Specialty
- Addiction Medicine
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Copies
- 1
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
Best Evidence Structural Interventions for HIV Prevention
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat40738
Rachel E. Golden, Charles B. Collins, Shayna D. Cunningham, Emily N. Newman, Josefina J. Card.
--New York, NY:
Springer
, c2013.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
Best Evidence Structural Interventions for HIV Prevention Rachel E. Golden, Charles B. Collins, Shayna D. Cunningham, Emily N. Newman, and Josefina J. Card In the fourth decade of the HIV epidemic, the signs are both encouraging and alarming: fewer people are dying, and more people are living longer with the help of powerful antivirals, yet many areas of the world are seeing new cases on the rise. Best Evidence Structural Interventions for HIV Prevention reports on successful HIV prevention ini…
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Author
- Golden, Rachel E
- Responsibility
- Rachel E. Golden, Charles B. Collins, Shayna D. Cunningham, Emily N. Newman, Josefina J. Card
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2013
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 352 p. : ill.)
- ISBN
- 9781461470137
- 9781461470120 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Evidence-Based Medicine
- Harm Reduction
- Health Policy
- Health Promotion
- HIV Infections - prevention & control
- Public Health
- Safe Sex
- Abstract
- Best Evidence Structural Interventions for HIV Prevention Rachel E. Golden, Charles B. Collins, Shayna D. Cunningham, Emily N. Newman, and Josefina J. Card In the fourth decade of the HIV epidemic, the signs are both encouraging and alarming: fewer people are dying, and more people are living longer with the help of powerful antivirals, yet many areas of the world are seeing new cases on the rise. Best Evidence Structural Interventions for HIV Prevention reports on successful HIV prevention initiatives from across the globe, representing countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas at diverse stages of the epidemic. Spotlighting major worldwide objectives--decreasing risks in IV drug use, commercial sex work, and non-commercial sexual activity and promoting HIV screening, voluntary counseling and testing (VCT), and antiretroviral therapy--these rigorously evaluated interventions are analyzed at individual and community levels. Chapters discuss issues regarding availability and accessibility of resources and populations' receptivity to change. And the authors examine related ethical challenges, including whether interventions should also target larger problems fueling the epidemic such as poverty and inequality. Among the programs featured: U.S.: Legal access to needles and syringes; China: Needle social marketing; Tanzania: Go with the Times, a radio soap opera; Dominican Republic: Compromiso Collectivo for female sex workers; France: Prenatal HIV screening; South Africa: Drama-based intervention to promote VCT. These life-saving initiatives are worthy of wider recognition, making Best Evidence Structural Interventions for HIV Prevention a superior reference for graduate students and researchers in public health, HIV/AIDS prevention, and health policy. Policymakers and planners will also find these ideas of great importance.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of Structural Interventions to Decrease Injection Drug-Use Risk -- Case Study 1: Legalization of Needle and Syringe Sale and Possession: Effect on Connecticut Injection Drug Users’ Injection Practices -- Case Study 2: The SHAKTI Intervention in Bangladesh: (Stopping HIV/AIDS through Knowledge and Training Initiatives) A Needle Exchange Program’s Effect on Injection Drug Users’ Injection -- Case Study 3: Providing a Safer Injection Facility to Injection Drug Users: InSite: A Safer Injection Facility in Vancouver, British Columbia -- Case Study 4: Needle Social Marketing Strategy in China: Effect on Chinese Injection Drug Users’ Injection Practices -- Case Study 5: The Vietnam and China Cross-Border Project: Effect on HIV Risk Behaviors of Injection Drug Users -- 3. Overview of Structural Interventions to Decrease Noncommercial Sex Risk -- Case Study 6: Louisiana’s Condom Social Marketing Program: Effect of Improved Availability and Access on Use -- Case Study 7: Promoting Sexual Responsibility Among Youth in Zimbabwe: Effect of an Extensive Multimedia Campaign on Indicators of Safer Sex -- Case Study 8: The 100% Jeune Social Marketing Campaign: Effect on Condom Use Among Youth in Cameroon -- Case Study 9: Twenda na Wakati (Lets Go with the Times): Effects of a Radio Soap Opera on HIV/AIDS Prevention in Tanzania -- Case Study 10: A Safer Sex Media Campaign in Lexington, Kentucky: Using Public Service Announcements to Promote Condom Use -- 4. Overview of Structural Interventions to Decrease Commercial Sex Risk -- Case Study 11: Mandatory Condom Law in Nevada Brothels: Using Policy to Change Condom Use Practices -- Case Study 12: Compromiso Collectivo: Reducing HIV Risk Among Female Sex Workers in the Dominican Republic -- Case Study 13: A Social and Structural Intervention in the Philippines: Effect on Condom Use of Establishment- Based Female Sex Workers -- Case Study 14: The 100 % Condom Program in Thailand: Using Public Policy Change to Increase Condom Use in Brothels -- Case Study 15: The Sonagachi Project: Empowering Sex Workers in the Songagchi District of Calcutta, India -- 5. Overview of Structural Interventions to Increase Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) and Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) -- Case Study 16: Mandatory Offering of HIV Screening During Prenatal Visits: The Experience of Southeastern France in Response to National Policy -- Case Study 17: Free Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy in Taiwan: Effect of a Country-Wide Policy on HIV Transmission -- Case Study 18: A Drama-Based HIV Intervention in South Africa: Effect on Voluntary Counseling and Testing -- 6. Conclusion.
- Format
- e-Book
- Publication Type
- Case Reports
- Location
- Online
Harm reduction : pragmatic strategies for managing high risk behaviors
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat44778
edited by G. Alan Marlatt.
--New York, NY:
Guilford Press
, c1998.
- Call Number
- WM 270 H287 1998
- Location
- Yarmouth Regional Hospital
Harm reduction is an increasingly recognized approach to the management of substance abuse and other behaviors that may pose serious health risks. Rather than defining drug use as a disease or a moral failing, harm reduction proponents stake out a humane and practical alternative: meeting clients "where they are at" to help them understand the risks involved in their behaviors and make appropriate decisions about their own treatment goals. The first major text on harm reduction, this timely vol…
- Call Number
- WM 270 H287 1998
- Other Authors
- Marlatt, G. Alan
- Responsibility
- edited by G. Alan Marlatt
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Guilford Press
- Date of Publication
- c1998
- Physical Description
- xxiv, 390 pages
- ISBN
- 1572303972
- 9781572303973
- 1572308257
- 9781572308251
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Addiction Medicine
- Drug and Narcotic Control
- Harm Reduction
- Health Policy
- Risk Reduction Behavior
- Substance-Related Disorders - therapy
- Abstract
- Harm reduction is an increasingly recognized approach to the management of substance abuse and other behaviors that may pose serious health risks. Rather than defining drug use as a disease or a moral failing, harm reduction proponents stake out a humane and practical alternative: meeting clients "where they are at" to help them understand the risks involved in their behaviors and make appropriate decisions about their own treatment goals. The first major text on harm reduction, this timely volume explains the model's rationale and examines a range of applications in diverse communities. Insight is also offered into the often contentious philosophical and policy-related debates surrounding this growing movement. Up-to-date and informative, this book provides indispensable information for front-line drug and alcohol treatment providers, AIDS educators, and community health activists. Students and professionals in public health, clinical and health psychology, psychiatry, primary care, counseling, and social work will also find it an invaluable resource, as will readers interested in drug policy and the law.
- Contents
- I. Overview of harm reduction -- Highlights of harm reduction : a personal report from the first national harm reduction conference in the United States -- Harm reduction around the world : a brief history -- Basic principles and strategies of harm reduction -- II. Applications to addictive behaviors and high-risk sexual behaviors -- Harm reduction for alcohol problems : expanding access to and acceptability of prevention and treatment services -- Harm reduction, nicotine, and smoking -- Harm reduction strategies for illicit substance use and abuse -- Harm reduction and HIV/AIDS prevention -- III. Matching strategies to diverse ethnic communities -- Bringing harm reduction to the Black community : there's a fire in my house and you're telling me to rearrange my furniture? -- Alcohol use and harm reduction within the Native community -- IV. Can harm reduction play a role in U.S. drug policy? -- Harm reduction and public policy.
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Yarmouth Regional Hospital
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks use
Harm reduction : pragmatic strategies for managing high-risk behaviors
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat25417
Marlatt, G. Alan.
(2nd ed.)
--New York, NY:
Guilford Press
, 2012.
- Call Number
- WM 270 M347h 2012
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Call Number
- WM 270 M347h 2012
- Author
- Marlatt, G. Alan
- Other Authors
- Larimer, mary E.
- Witkiewitz, Katie
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Guilford Press
- Date of Publication
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 396 p.
- ISBN
- 9781462502561
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Harm Reduction
- Risk Reduction Behavior
- Substance-Related Disorders - complications
- Substance-Related Disorders - prevention & control
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
Mental Health and Addictions Recovery Support Program
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/chpams38161
Nova Scotia Health Authority. Mental Health and Addictions Program.
Halifax, NS:
Nova Scotia Health Authority
, 2023.
- Pamphlet Number
- 2324
- Available Online
- View Pamphlet
The Recovery Support Program is for people who are 19 years of age or older, have problems with substance use and/or gambling, want to stop or lower their substance use and/or gambling, and want to use substances and/or gamble more safely. This pamphlet explains how to start the program, what supports are included, and what the Recovery Support Skills Group is. Information about whom to call for support and how to give program feedback is also provided.
- Available Online
- View Pamphlet
- Corporate Author
- Nova Scotia Health Authority. Mental Health and Addictions Program
- Place of Publication
- Halifax, NS
- Publisher
- Nova Scotia Health Authority
- Date of Publication
- 2023
- Format
- Pamphlet
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 electronic document (5 p.) : digital, PDF file
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Substance-Related Disorders - therapy
- Gambling - therapy
- Harm Reduction
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Substance abuse
- Gambling
- Harm reduction
- Specialty
- Psychiatry
- Abstract
- The Recovery Support Program is for people who are 19 years of age or older, have problems with substance use and/or gambling, want to stop or lower their substance use and/or gambling, and want to use substances and/or gamble more safely. This pamphlet explains how to start the program, what supports are included, and what the Recovery Support Skills Group is. Information about whom to call for support and how to give program feedback is also provided.
- Responsibility
- Prepared by: Mental Health and Addictions Program Recovery Support Program
- Pamphlet Number
- 2324
Practicing harm reduction psychotherapy : an alternative approach to addictions
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat25418
Denning, Patt.
(2nd ed.)
--New York, NY:
Guilford Press
, 2012.
- Call Number
- WM 270 D411p 2012
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Call Number
- WM 270 D411p 2012
- Author
- Denning, Patt
- Other Authors
- Little, Jeannie
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Guilford Press
- Date of Publication
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 366 p.
- ISBN
- 9781462502332
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Addiction Medicine - methods
- Harm Reduction
- Psychotherapy - methods
- Substance-Related Disorders - prevention & control
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
