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For communities and organizations working with youth, this manual offers a straightforward and adaptable plan for building community initiatives and youth programs that get results. Because youth programs and community initiatives are required by their funders to document outcomes, this 10-step process poses different accountability questions. Each step is accompanied with examples from Search Institute and Healthy Communities*Healthy…
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Interventions need to recognize the importance of social networks of homeless youth in emerging adulthood by enhancing supportive bonds and reducing substance use and risky sex.
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BRIGHT is a group cognitive behavioral therapy program for individuals with depression and co-occurring alcohol or drug use problems. It can be delivered by non-mental health practitioners, thus providing treatment to those who often do not receive it.
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Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT-2) is a manualized group cognitive behavioral therapy program for co-occurring depression and alcohol and drug use problems. BRIGHT-2 is an 18-week program consisting of three modules that each focus on a specific topic — thoughts, activities, and people interactions — and how it can affect a person's mood and desire to drink or use drugs. This volume is the…
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Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT-2) is a manualized group cognitive behavioral therapy program for co-occurring depression and alcohol and drug use problems. BRIGHT-2 is an 18-week program consisting of three modules that each focus on a specific topic — thoughts, activities, and people interactions — and how it can affect a person's mood and desire to drink or use drugs. This volume is the…
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Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT) is a manualized group cognitive behavioral therapy program for depression in individuals with co-occurring alcohol and drug use problems. BRIGHT is a 16-week program consisting of four modules that each focus on a specific topic — thoughts, activities, people interactions, and substance abuse — and how it can affect a person's mood. This volume is the group…
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Online prescription drug sales require better oversight: For every 10 percent increase in high-speed Internet use at the state level, associated treatment facility admissions for prescription drug abuse rose by 1 percent.
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Providing group cognitive behavioral therapy for depression to clients with persistent depressive symptoms receiving residential substance abuse treatment is associated with improved depression and substance use outcomes.
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About one-third of veterans report using alcohol, street drugs, or medication prescribed for others to manage pain.
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This study examines how the effect of alcohol excise taxes on the demand for alcohol varies across different racial and ethnic groups.
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Young homeless "travelers" engage in higher risk behavior than non-traveler homeless and may have different service needs and require different service approaches.
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This paper provides a look back at the creation, evolution and growth of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center (DPRC).
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The chemical compounds found in marijuana deserve more attention as efforts to regulate marijuana for medical and recreational use go forward.
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The PROMIS Smoking Initiative has the goal of developing, evaluating, and making widely available a set of items for assessing smoking behavior and the biopsychosocial constructs that can be used to predict smoking outcomes.
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Exposure to movies that portray motivations for smoking places adolescents at particular risk for future smoking.
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Using administrative data from the largest Medicaid managed behavioral health organization in a large mid-Atlantic state and multivariate regression, this article examines rates and predictors of opioid agonist use and treatment setting for 14,386 new opioid dependence treatment episodes during 2007–2009.
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This study evaluates the effectiveness of motivational enhancement therapy/cognitive behavioral therapy–5 (MET/CBT-5) when delivered in community practice settings relative to standard community-based adolescent treatment.
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We assessed the effect of Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) spending on smoking disparities in Arkansas, which distinguished itself from other states by investing all of its MSA funds in health-related programs.
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This study provides descriptive information about 1,655 applicants in California who sought a physician's recommendation for medical marijuana, the conditions for which they sought treatment, and the diagnoses made by the physicians.
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Latent class analysis. A new approach to studying the role of place in population health, can be used in both research and practice.
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