Kickbusch, I., van der Linde, F., Zapfl, R., Meili, B., Abelin, T., Chinet, L., et al. (2010). The challenge of addiction : foundations for a future oriented policy on addiction in Switzerland : abstract (for D. I. and for T. C. Steering Group of the three Federal Commissions for alcohol Issues, Ed.). Berne: Steering Group Challenge of Addiction.
Abstract: The Report on the Challenge of Addiction is intended as a contribution towards an integrated understanding of addiction policy on the basis of a public health approach. From a health policy perspective, the Report proposes broadening the scope of addiction policy in Switzerland and changing its strategic focus and direction. It recommends ten principles. These are intended to contribute to a coherent policy response to the problematic consumption of all psychoactive substances and to behaviours with addictive potential.
Keywords: government and politics; public health; AOD public policy strategy; addiction; AOD dependence; drug legalization; Switzerland
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Kickbusch, I., van der Linde, F., Zapfl, R., Meili, B., Abelin, T., Chinet, L., et al. (2010). The challenge of addiction : foundations for a future oriented policy on addiction in Switzerland (for D. I. and for T. C. Steering Group of the three Federal Commissions for alcohol Issues, Ed.). Berne: Steering Group Challenge of Addiction.
Abstract: The Report on the Challenge of Addiction is intended as a contribution towards an integrated understanding of addiction policy on the basis of a public health approach. From a health policy perspective, the Report proposes broadening the scope of addiction policy in Switzerland and changing its strategic focus and direction. It recommends ten principles. These are intended to contribute to a coherent policy response to the problematic consumption of all psychoactive substances and to behaviours with addictive potential.
Keywords: government and politics; public health; AOD public policy strategy; addiction; AOD dependence; drug legalization; Switzerland
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various. (1990). The big blue book of dance drugs. Manchester: Lifeline.
Keywords: addiction; AOD dependence; chemical addiction; ecstasy
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various. (1990). The big blue book of dance drugs. Manchester: Lifeline.
Keywords: addiction; AOD dependence; chemical addiction; ecstasy
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Amphora Alcohol Public Health Research Alliance. (2012). The Amphora manifesto on alcohol. Barcelona: Author.
Keywords: chemical addiction; licit drug; alcohol; AOD use, abuse, and dependence; public health; public policy on alcohol; policy recommendations; harm reduction; international area; Europe
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Rolles, S., Murkin, G., Powell, M., Kushlick, D., & Slater, J. (2012). The alternative world drug report : counting the costs of the war on drugs. Bristol: Count the Costs.
Abstract: The Alternative World Drug Report, launched to coincide with the publication of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s 2012 World Drug Report, exposes the failure of governments and the UN to assess the extraordinary costs of pursuing a global war on drugs, and calls for UN member states to meaningfully count these costs and explore all the alternatives. After 50 years of the current enforcement-led international drug control system, the war on drugs is coming under unparalleled scrutiny. Its goal was to create a “drug-free world”. Instead, despite more than a trillion dollars spent fighting the war, according to the UNODC, illegal drugs are used by an estimated 270 million people and organised crime profits from a trade with an estimated turnover of over $330 billion a year – the world’s largest illegal commodity market. In its 2008 World Drug Report, the UNODC acknowledged that choosing an enforcement-based approach was having a range of negative “unintended consequences”, including: the creation of a vast criminal market, displacement of the illegal drugs trade to new areas, diversion of funding from health, and the stigmatisation of users. It is unacceptable that neither the UN or its member governments have meaningfully assessed these unintended consequences to establish whether they outweigh the intended consequences of the current global drug control system, and that they are not documented in the UNODC’s flagship annual World Drug Report. This groundbreaking Alternative World Drug Report fills this gap in government and UN evaluations by detailing the full range of negative impacts resulting from choosing an enforcement-led approach.
Keywords: government and politics; laws and regulations; drug legalization; drug decriminalization; crime; public policy on AOD; policy recommendations; cost (economic); international area
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Junius, J. (2003). The aging of HIV (fact sheet) (E. P. Tomaszewski, Ed.). Washington: National Association of Social Workers (NASW).
Keywords: health promotion; HIV infection; Aids; fact sheet
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Dangle, L. (1988). The adventures of Bleach Man = Las aventuras de Bleach Man. San Francisco: San Francisco Aids Foundation (SFAF).
Keywords: harm reduction; viral disease; HIV infection; Aids; risk; sex; AOD use; chemical addiction; intravenous injection; United States
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Volkow, N. D., Fowler, J. S., & Wang, G. - J. (2003). The addicted human brain : insights from imaging studies. The Journal of clinical investigation, 111(10; 05/2003), 1444–1451.
Abstract: Imaging studies have revealed neurochemical and functional changes in the brains of drug-addicted subjects that provide new insights into the mechanisms underlying addiction. Neurochemical studies have shown that large and fast increases in dopamine are associated with the reinforcing effects of drugs of abuse, but also that after chronic drug abuse and during withdrawal, brain dopamine function is markedly decreased and these decreases are associated with dysfunction of prefrontal regions (including orbitofrontal cortex and cingulate gyrus). The changes in brain dopamine function are likely to result in decreased sensitivity to natural reinforcers since dopamine also mediates the reinforcing effects of natural reinforcers and on disruption of frontal cortical functions, such as inhibitory control and salience attribution. Functional imaging studies have shown that during drug intoxication, or during craving, these frontal regions become activated as part of a complex pattern that includes brain circuits involved with reward (nucleus accumbens), motivation (orbitofrontal cortex), memory (amygdala and hippocampus), and cognitive control (prefrontal cortex and cingulate gyrus). Here, we integrate these findings and propose a model that attempts to explain the loss of control and compulsive drug intake that characterize addiction. Specifically, we propose that in drug addiction the value of the drug and drug-related stimuli is enhanced at the expense of other reinforcers. This is a consequence of conditioned learning and of the resetting of reward thresholds as an adaptation to the high levels of stimulation induced by drugs of abuse. In this model, during exposure to the drug or drug-related cues, the memory of the expected reward results in overactivation of the reward and motivation circuits while decreasing the activity in the cognitive control circuit. This contributes to an inability to inhibit the drive to seek and consume the drug and results in compulsive drug intake. This model has implications for therapy, for it suggests a multi-prong approach that targets strategies to decrease the rewarding properties of drugs, to enhance the rewarding properties of alternative reinforcers, to interfere with conditioned-learned associations, and to strengthen cognitive control in the treatment of drug addiction.
Keywords: addiction; brain; neuroscience (field); neurobiology (field); research
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Hüsler, G., Werlen, E., & Rehm, J. (2005). The Action Plan : a new instrument to collect data on interventions in secondary prevention in adolescents. Substance use and misuse, 40(6), 761–777.
Abstract: It is difficult to draw causal conclusions about the effectiveness of secondary prevention programs for adolescents at risk, when the programs use a variety of different interventions. The Action Plan is an instrument that is designed to make collection of such data possible. This allows calculating different kinds of intervention patterns for each participant and program, which, in combination with outcome measures, gives an estimate of successful vs. less successful interventions. The study compared intervention patterns from 12 different sites in a national intervention program in Switzerland. The program, called supra-f (www.supra-f.ch), started in 1999 and will end in 2005. Results are presented from the ongoing study with approximately 600 adolescents. We calculated effect sizes (ES) to compare interventions with outcome measures. Effect sizes (ES) are presented on well being, coping, self-esteem, delinquency, and substance use (cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis) in relation to intervention packages, risk groups (low, moderate, high), and age (two groups: 11-15 and 16-20 years of age) using data collected from 1999-2002.
Keywords: AOD use; adolescent; risk; Supra-f; community involvement; secondary prevention; prevention research; program evaluation; study; statistical data; Switzerland
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