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European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. (2009) Preventing later substance use disorders in at-risk children and adolescents. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.

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This review on indicated prevention adds to the current knowledge and understanding of risk factors in the development of later drug problems and dependence, focusing on the mental health and behavioural problems that develop during childhood.

Indicated prevention is a relatively new branch of drug prevention and can be seen as the third part of the ‘prevention chain’, after universal and selective prevention. Its aim is not necessarily to prevent drug use or initiation to it, but rather to prevent the development of dependence, diminish frequency of use and avert ‘dangerous’ patterns of substance use (e.g. moderate instead of binge-drinking).

Table of contents:

* Principles of indicated prevention
* Risk and protective factors in the development of substance use and substance use disorder
* Guidelines and standards for the assessment and treatment of psychiatric risk conditions for adolescent substance abuse
* Strategies and programmes in indicated prevention
* Ethical issues
* Conclusions and recommendations


Item Type
Report
Publication Type
International, Report
Drug Type
Substances (not alcohol/tobacco)
Intervention Type
Prevention
Date
2009
Pages
88 p.
Publisher
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
Corporate Creators
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
Place of Publication
Luxembourg
ISBN
1725-5767
EndNote
Accession Number
HRB (Electronic Only)

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