books: harm reduction ...     books:       Activity: harm reduction and sexual health.: An article from: SIECUS Report Rachel Herzing Thomson Gale, 2005 This digital document is an article from SIECUS Report, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 736 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Activity: harm reduction and sexual health. Author: ...             Harm Reduction: Pragmatic Strategies for Managing High-Risk Behaviors2 reviews The Guilford Press, 2002 The manifesto of a new movement. If you are looking for an alternative to rigid, one-dimensional, abstinence-only approaches to substance abuse or HIV prevention, this book is the place to start. According to the harm reduction philosophy, abstinence is one end of a continuum of human behavior, and is not something that can be attained overnight by those most in need of help. As a professional working in this field, I find ...             Practicing Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: An Alternative Approach to Addictions5 reviews Patt Denning The Guilford Press, 2004 The Greatest Thing Since AA This is an amazing book. Finally, a book that talks about addiction and drug use in terms of the real relationship and complex interactions that people and their emotions have with drugs and alcohol. One that moves us away from the "all or nothing" concepts of the disease model of addiction, with its demands for total abstinence from all mind-altering substances as a condition for treatment. ...             Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: A New Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems4 reviews Andrew Tatarsky Jason Aronson, 2007 Move over AA, there's a new kid on the block Andrew Tatarsky and his contributors have brought the honesty, the sympathy, and the efficacy of harm reduction into the treatment of substance users, and it's about time! "Just Say No" has failed 95% of drug users who seek treatment to have better control over their life and their substance use. It has failed them because drug use is not a disease, and abstinence is not a cure. Men and women ...             Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs1 review Will Hall The Icarus Project and Freedom Center, 2007 Very useful information, Highly informative I work for an agency that supports people who have someone they love recovering from schizophrenia, bipolar, psychosis, and/or other forms of mental distress. I have found this guide to be very helpful as both an education tool, and as a supportive manual. The information complied in this book can help families and people coming off drugs feel less afraid, less alone, and more informed about ...             7 Weeks to Safe Social Drinking: How to Effectively Moderate Your Alcohol Intake6 reviews Donna J. Cornett People Friendly Books, 2005 A Winner for Anyone Questioning Their Drinking This book has been a lifesaver for me. For years I enjoyed social drinking without problems, but the last couple of years I've questioned if I was drinking too much. This program showed me how to pace my drinking, how to make a drinking plan in advance before I started drinking(which really worked)and how to stick to my limit fairly easily. It also made alcohol less important to me - a huge step ...             Over the Influence: The Harm Reduction Guide for Managing Drugs and Alcohol3 reviews Patt Denning, Jeannie Little, ... The Guilford Press, 2003 Revolutionary New Approach to Drug Treatment Anyone troubled by drug or alcohol use but not interested in cold turkey, all or nothing approaches to such problems, really ought to take a good look at Dr. Patt Denning's "Over the Influence: The Harm Reduction Guide for Managing Drugs and Alcohol." Denning and co-authors Jeannie Little and Adina Glickman address substance use in terms of the interplay between the individual and a variety of ...             Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS): A Harm Reduction Approach Linda A. Dimeff, John S. Baer, ... The Guilford Press, 1999 This instructive manual presents a pragmatic and clinically proven approach to the prevention and treatment of undergraduate alcohol abuse. The BASICS model is a nonconfrontational, harm reduction approach that helps students reduce their alcohol consumption and decrease the behavioral and health risks associated with heavy drinking. Including numerous reproducible handouts and assessment forms, the book takes readers step-by-step through ...             Caribbean Drugs: From Criminalization to Harm Reduction Zed Books, 2004 In the Caribbean islands, ganja, crack cocaine and the policy responses to them have triggered a social disaster. The islands, under US pressure, have adopted a region-wide policy of criminalization. Specialized drug courts have been created and traditional cultural practices around ganja consumption have been criminalized with serious human and social consequences. This is the first book to examine the experiences of Caribbean countries since ...             Care of Drug Users in General Care: a Harm Reduction Approach Berry Beaumont Radcliffe Medical Press, 2004 Includes new sections on stimulants, drug users with special needs, families & continuing professtional development & appraisal. It provides practical first-hand knowledge from contributors working the field & is essential reading for general practitioners, & practice nurses             Clearing the Smoke : Assessing the Science Base for Tobacco Harm Reduction Committee to Assess the Science Base for Tobacco Harm Reduction, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, ... National Academies Press, 2001 Despite overwhelming evidence of tobacco's harmful effects and pressure from anti-smoking advocates, current surveys show that about one-quarter of all adults in the United States are smokers. This audience is the target for a wave of tobacco products and pharmaceuticals that claim to preserve tobacco pleasure while reducing its toxic effects. Clearing the Smoke addresses the problems in evaluating whether such products actually do reduce ...              search for books activity, addictions, alcohol, alternative, approach, article, assessing, behaviors, caribbean, clearing, criminalization, drinking, effectively, high-risk, influence, intervention, managing, moderate, practicing, pragmatic, problems, psychiatric, psychotherapy, reduction, science, screening, strategies, students, tobacco, treatment books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen electronics: Texas Instruments TI-83 Plus Graphing Calculator we recommend Move over AA, there's a new kid on the block leave a comment home  impressum - about us