Bodmer, M., & Süss, D. (2009). Alles unter Kontrolle? : vom Umgang mit Videospielen. SuchtMagazin, 35(5; 10/2009), 32–36.
Abstract: Die mediale Diskussion zu Videospielen dreht sich meist stark um Sucht und Gewalt. Verbote werden gefordert, deren Wirksamkeit höchst fraglich ist. Nur wer die Mechanismen der interaktiven Unterhaltung versteht, kann sachlich über das neue Medium diskutieren und sich auch vor möglichen negativen Auswirkungen schützen.
Keywords: addiction; nonchemical addiction
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Winkler, H. (2009). Effekte von Zertifizierungen in Einrichtungen der Suchtrehabilitation. SuchtMagazin, 35(2; 04/2009), 4–7.
Abstract: Überraschungserfolge einerseits und enttäuschte Erwartungen andererseits ermittelte eine deutsche Studie, in der Auswirkungen einer Zertifizierung auf das interne Management und hinsichtlich der Aussenwirkung der Einrichtung untersucht wurden.
Keywords: addiction care; quality; Switzerland; journal article
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Meili, B. (2004). Indizierte Prävention bei gefährdeten Jugendlichen. SuchtMagazin, 30(6; 12/2004), 21–25.
Abstract: Primärprävention von Drogenproblemen geniesst zwar nach wie vor hohe Legitimität, kann aber keine überzeugenden Wirkungserfolge nachweisen. Ein kritisches Überdenken dieser Sachlage ist unumgänglich und führt zu neuen Ansätzen wie beispielsweise zu indizierter Prävention.
Keywords: indicated prevention; adolescent; high-risk youth; journal article
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Stevens-Watkins, D., & Rostosky, S. (2010). Binge drinking in african american males from adolescence to young adulthood : the protective influence of religiosity, family connectedness, and close friends' substance use. Substance use and misuse, 45(10), 1435–1451.
Abstract: We examined the contribution of culturally relevant protective factors (i.e., adolescent religiosity, family connectedness, and perceived close friends’ substance use) to the probability of young adult binge drinking among African American males. Participants (n = 1,599) drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health were high school age adolescents (14-18 years, M = 16) at Wave 1 and young adults (18-26, M = 22) at Wave 3. Adolescent binge drinking was associated with all three protective factors. Perceived close friends’ substance use in adolescence was a protective factor in later binge drinking during young adulthood, and was moderated by age such that the effect was stronger for younger adolescents. Implications for culturally relevant research and prevention are discussed.
Keywords: African American; man; gender; adolescent; young adult; binge drinking; protective factors; spirituality and religion; religiosity; peer; group of intimates or friends; family; type of society and culture; research; study; statistical data
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Meili, B. (2003). Supra-f – ein Schweizer Forschungsprogramm zur sekundären Suchtprävention. Suchttherapie : Prävention, Behandlung, wissenschaftliche Grundlagen, 4, 211–213.
Keywords: supra-f; secondary prevention; addiction; prevention research; school; adolescent; Switzerland
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Hunt, N. (2004). Santé publique ou droits de l'homme? Quelle priorité? International journal of drug policy, 15(4; 09/2004), 231–237.
Abstract: Le respect des droits de l’homme est une caractéristique qui définit la réduction des risques, communément caractérisée comme un mouvement basé sur la santé publique. L’importance qu’il attache à une « user-friendliness » et la conception que les consommateurs de drogue ont droit au même respect et à la même dignité que les autres usagers de services sanitaires ou sociaux est largement partagée par les professionnels de la réduction des risques. Dans ce courant il y a également un discours qui identifie la consommation de drogue comme un droit humain qui voudrait que la réduction des risques fasse partie du mouvement des droits de 1’homme: ceci nous conduit à décrire deux philosophies de la réduction des risques: une version « light » où les gens ont droit à un traitement convenable et une version plus appuyée « hard »qui reconnaît en plus le droit à l’usage de drogues. En faisant des droits de l’homme ou de la santé publique une priorité peut amener différents concepts de réduction des risques et différentes formes « d’actions correctes ». Privilégier la santé peut même, dans certains cas, être en phase avec une politique prohibitionniste si elle réduit les dommages. En contraste, la version élargie de la réduction des risques subordonne des considérations de santé publique au droit de consommer des drogues et implique le soutien à des politiques qui peuvent parfois augmenter les dommages. En Grande-Bretagne, la publication de « The Angel Declaration» qui reconnaît le droit d’utiliser des drogues et propose un cadre de régulation minime pour une ère post-prohibition a poussé les professionnels de la réduction des risques à clarifier s’ils approuvaient pleinement le droit de consommer des drogues dans le cadre de leur conception de la réduction des risques. Cet article élabore ces thèmes dans le contexte des contraintes issues des conventions des Nations Unies de 1961,1971 et 1988.
Keywords: human rights; public health; AOD use; harm reduction
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Hunt, N. (2004). Public health or human rights: what comes first? International journal of drug policy, 15(4; 09/2004), 231–237.
Abstract: Respect for human rights is a defining feature of harm reduction, which is commonly characterised as a public health-based movement. The importance it attaches to ‘user-friendliness’ and the view that drug users have a right to the same respect and dignity that other users of health and social care services receive is largely undisputed among harm reductionists. Within harm reduction there is also a developing discourse identifying drug use itself as a human right; nudging harm reduction towards being a rights based movement. This allows us to describe two philosophies of harm reduction: a ‘weak rights’ version, in which people are entitled to good treatment and a ‘strong rights’ version that additionally recognises a basic right to use drugs. Prioritising human rights or public health can lead to different concepts of harm reduction and different forms of ‘right action’. Privileging health may even, in some circumstances, be consistent with prohibitionary policies if these reduce harm. By contrast, the strong rights version of harm reduction subordinates public health considerations to the right to use drugs and implies support for policies that may sometimes increase harm. In the UK, the publication of ‘The Angel Declaration’, which recognises a right to use drugs and proposes a skeletal regulatory framework for a post-prohibition era, adds to the impetus for harm reductionists to clarify whether they fully embrace a right to use drugs within their understanding of harm reduction. This paper elaborates these issues in the context of the constraints upon the development of an evidence-based approach to controlling drug use that arise from the UN Conventions of 1961, 1971 and 1988.
Keywords: human rights; public health; AOD use; harm reduction
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Hüsler, G., Plancherel, B., & Werlen, E. (2005). Psychosocial predictors of cannabis use in adolescents at risk. Prevention Science, 6(3; 09/2005), 237–244.
Abstract: This research has tested a social disintegration model in conjunction with risk and protection factors that have the power to differentiate relative, weighted interactions among variables in different socially disintegrated groups. The model was tested in a cross-sectional sample of 1082 at-risk youth in Switzerland. Structural equation analyses show significant differences between the social disintegration (low, moderate, high) groups and gender, indicating that the model works differently for groups and for gender. For the highly disintegrated adolescents results clearly show that the risk factors (negative mood, peer network, delinquency) are more important than the protective factors (family relations, secure sense of self). Family relations lose all protective value against negative peer influence, but personal variables, such as secure self, gain protective power.
Keywords: cannabis; adolescent; risk factors; protective factors; psychosocial environment; social integration; gender differences; study; statistical data; research; secondary prevention; Switzerland
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Hüsler, G., & Plancherel, B. (2006). A gender specific model of substance use. Addiction Research and Theory, 14(4; 08/2006), 399–412.
Abstract: This research has tested a structural model of risk and protection factors among 1437 at-risk adolescents in Switzerland. The model was used to identify important gender and age differences. Our research shows that interactions between parents, peers, negative mood, and secure self create a range of risk factors for girls and boys, and for younger and older teens. Negative peer group was a greater risk for young girls than for young boys. Negative mood can serve as an early warning sign for boys, as can negative peer group for girls. Mood for boys was marginally associated with a substance-using peer group and with poor relationships in the family. This suggests that for boys the focus of prevention should be on family relationships and for girls on peer relationships. For older girls, secure self was the greatest protector against substance-using peers, whereas for younger boys and girls, parents continued to offer some protection. The focus on development of secure self in older girls holds promise for secondary prevention.
Keywords: AOD use; adolescent; risk factors; protective factors; family; peer; emotional and psychiatric depression; gender differences; study; statistical data; research; secondary prevention; Switzerland
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Hüsler, G., Blakeney, R., & Werlen, E. (2005). Adolescent risk: the co-occurrence of illness, suicidality, and substance use. Journal of youth and adolescence, 34(6; 12/2005), 547–557.
Abstract: Illness is rarely considered a “risk factor” in adolescence. This study tests illness, suicidality and substance use as outcome measures in a path analysis of 1028 Swiss adolescents in secondary prevention programs. The model showed that negative mood (depression and anxiety) predicted two paths. One path led from negative mood to suicidality and from there to substance use. The other path led directly from negative mood to illness. Traditional protective factors (good relationships, secure identity) protected against the negative mood-suicide-substance path, but not against the negative mood-illness path.
Keywords: AOD use; adolescent; risk factors; protective factors; emotional and psychiatric depression; suicidal behavior; study; statistical data; research; secondary prevention; Switzerland
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