Substance Use Disorders

Richards, Jessica; Daughters, Stacey B.; Bornovalova, Marina A.; Brown, Richard A.; Lejuez, Carl W.

doi:10.1002/9781118686089.ch11

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“…This intervention puts into focus ways in which to reduce substance use among adolescents and consider adolescents within the scope of developing and planning prevention–intervention initiatives. This intervention provides experimental participants with opportunities for developing a critical awareness and engaging in opportunities for leadership and social change [ 13 ]. This intervention of educational empowerment emphasizes these developmental processes as key stress-buffering pathways in promoting adolescents’ wellness [ 13 ].…”

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“…This intervention provides experimental participants with opportunities for developing a critical awareness and engaging in opportunities for leadership and social change [ 13 ]. This intervention of educational empowerment emphasizes these developmental processes as key stress-buffering pathways in promoting adolescents’ wellness [ 13 ]. A major practice implication is a need for the education and training of adults to increase conscious power sharing, guiding adolescents and adults through critical reflection activities, and supporting the broad goal of critical social youth empowerment.…”

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“…To add to the concern, these urban poor adolescents are labeled as a high-risk group that is perceived as having deficits [ 11 , 12 ]. The current perception is that inner-city adolescents are not capable of following through with a drug and alcohol use prevention program, carrying the doubt as to whether they can be social change agents to break the chain of drug and alcohol use in their community systematically [ 13 ]. Therefore, intervention programs need to focus on empowerment [ 11 , 14 ].…”

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The Effectiveness of an Empowerment Education Intervention for Substance Use Reduction among Inner-City Adolescents in Nigeria

Ojonuba

Rahman

Zaremohzzabieh

et al. 2023

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(1) Background: Substance use among inner-city adolescents is at an alarming rate in Nigeria. Despite their high exposure to this risk, limited experimental tests have been conducted on prevention programs. (2) Methods: This study investigates the effectiveness of an empowerment education intervention in reducing the risk of substance use in Abuja’s inner-city adolescents. Random selection placed adolescents into intervention and control conditions, and assessment was conducted at baseline, post-test, and 3-months follow-up intervention. After pre-test, the intervention group engaged in an empowerment education intervention of 11 sessions. (3) Results: In a post-test of three months, results show significant and positive changes among adolescents in substance use, including a notable reduction in positive attitudes toward drugs. In other words, the results showed adolescents reported less depression and substance use as well as higher peer support, parental support, social competence, and self-esteem at post-test and 3-month follow-ups as compared to the pre-intervention period. In addition, at both post-test and the 3-month follow-up, the intervention group performed better than the control group on peer support, parental support, social competence, and self-esteem. (4) Conclusions: This study presents a new indication that the empowerment education intervention effectively reduces substance use among Nigeria’s inner-city adolescents.

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The Effectiveness of an Empowerment Education Intervention for Substance Use Reduction among Inner-City Adolescents in Nigeria

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Zaremohzzabieh

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“…Stress ranks among the wide variety of causes and well-known risk factors leading to drug addiction and relapse, with addictive disorders being chronic and recurrent [ 12 ]. Childhood trauma is a risk factor for anxiety, mental disorders development, and substance use [ 13 ], which are more common in women [ 14 , 15 ]; therefore, drug addiction is more pronounced in them than in men [ 16 ]. The data show an increased use of illicit drugs such as opioids among women.…”

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Is Illicit Substance Use Gender-Specific? The Basic Points of Mental and Health Disorders

Georgieva

Benkova

Vlaeva

et al. 2022

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Among the groups of users of illicit substances, a high percentage are persons deprived of their liberty; at the same time, each social and age group is also affected, to one degree or another. The purpose of this study is to provide general data on the relationship between different psychostimulants, clinical and socio-demographic studies, and gender, both among the general population and in one of the most at-risk groups. This review identifies the use of illicit substances as gender-specific in the general population. A detailed study of the causal relationship between the use of illicit substances and gender was carried out. Electronic databases Academic Search Complete, PubMed, HealthCare, Web of Science, and Google Scholar were searched for relevant studies up to 2022 associated with drug abuse and mental and health disorders. The analysis indicated that the human population showed significant differences between the sex of the consumer as to the type of drug consumers, development of addiction, and relapse. We focus on the pathological changes caused by drug use, the personal and physiological individual traits that influence drug choice, and the extent of use in one of the most affected groups of individuals. The study may provide some guidance in developing gender-specific treatment and prevention, including response to some pharmacological and behavioral therapies. The review is intended for a wide audience of social workers, toxicologists, and pharmacologists.

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Factors predicting smoking in a laboratory-based smoking-choice task.

Bold¹,

Yoon²,

Chapman³

et al. 2013

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

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This study aimed to expand the current understanding of smoking maintenance mechanisms by examining how putative relapse risk factors relate to a single behavioral smoking choice using a novel laboratory smoking-choice task. After 12 hours of nicotine deprivation, participants were exposed to smoking cues and given the choice between smoking up to two cigarettes in a 15-minute window or waiting and receiving four cigarettes after a delay of 45 minutes. Greater nicotine dependence, higher impulsivity, and lower distress tolerance were hypothesized to predict earlier and more intensive smoking. Out of 35 participants (n=9 female), 26 chose to smoke with a median time to a first puff of 1.22 minutes (standard deviation=2.62 min, range=0.03–10.62 min). Survival analyses examined latency to first puff, and results indicated that greater pre-task craving and smoking more cigarettes per day were significantly related to smoking sooner in the task. Greater behavioral disinhibition predicted shorter smoking latency in the first two minutes of the task, but not at a delay of more than two minutes. Lower distress tolerance (reporting greater regulation efforts to alleviate distress) was related to more puffs smoked and greater nicotine dependence was related to more time spent smoking in the task. This novel laboratory smoking-choice paradigm may be a useful laboratory analog for the choices smokers make during cessation attempts and may help identify factors that influence smoking lapses.

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Substance Use Disorders

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The Effectiveness of an Empowerment Education Intervention for Substance Use Reduction among Inner-City Adolescents in Nigeria

The Effectiveness of an Empowerment Education Intervention for Substance Use Reduction among Inner-City Adolescents in Nigeria

Is Illicit Substance Use Gender-Specific? The Basic Points of Mental and Health Disorders

Factors predicting smoking in a laboratory-based smoking-choice task.

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