How can we prevent drug use?

How can we prevent drug use?

Know your triggers

1. avoiding places where you know drugs and alcohol will be available.
2. surrounding yourself with friends who don’t use drugs.
3. knowing how to resist temptation.
4. learning how to cope with stress and relax without drugs.
5. distracting yourself with activities like exercise or listening to music.

How can you influence others to avoid getting involved with drugs?

Talking about teen drug use

1. Ask your teen’s views. Avoid lectures.
2. Discuss reasons not to use drugs. Avoid scare tactics.
3. Consider media messages. Social media, television programs, movies and songs can glamorize or trivialize drug use.
4. Discuss ways to resist peer pressure.
5. Be ready to discuss your own drug use.

What are the 4 basic elements of drug abuse prevention and control?

There are four major conceptual approaches to prevention: risk-factor, developmental, social influence, and community-specific.

Which of the following are examples of harm reduction strategies?

What are some examples of harm reduction? Some practices that take a harm reduction approach include: using a nicotine patch instead of smoking, consuming water while drinking alcohol, using substances in a safe environment with someone they trust, and needle exchange programs for people who inject drugs.

What does a safe injection site do?

Safe injection sites are facilities where people can use clean needles to inject drugs under the supervision of medical personnel, who can revive them in case of an overdose. Site users also have access to wound care, HIV education and referral to addiction treatment.

Which three words define harm reduction?

Harm reduction incorporates a spectrum of strategies that includes safer use, managed use, abstinence, meeting people who use drugs “where they’re at,” and addressing conditions of use along with the use itself.

Is harm reduction a theoretical framework?

Theoretical Framework for the Study The harm reduction theory proposes that reducing costs to society (i.e., mortality, crime, spread of disease) in substance abuse treatment programs should be an allowable goal if abstinence is not achievable or wanted by the patient (Marlatt, 1998).

What is an abstinence violation effect?

Abstinence Violation Effect/Limit Violation Effect The abstinence violation effect can be defined as a tendency to continue to engage in a prohibited behavior following the violation of a personal goal to abstain.

What is harm reduction CDC?

Harm reduction is any behavior or strategy that helps reduce risk or harm to yourself or others. For example, to reduce the risk of contracting or transmitting HIV, you can practice safer sex or safer drug use.

Are needle exchange programs effective at reducing blood borne disease transmission?

Results: After reviewing the scientific literature the authors conclude that needle and syringe exchange programs are an effective way of reducing risky behaviors related to injecting drug use, hence they are effective in reducing the spread of HIV among injecting drug users and the population.

What are the benefits of needle exchange programs?

What Are the Benefits of Needle Exchange Programs?

• Provide Narcan to prevent deadly overdose.
• Connect addicts with addiction treatment centers.
• Allow for safe disposal of used needles to reduce threats to communities.
• Offer screening for HIV/AIDS and other illnesses.
• Provide education about programs at a nearby detox center.

Who is in charge of needle exchange programs?

Needle-exchange programmes are supported by the CDC and the National Institute of Health. The NIH estimated in 2002 that in the United States, between 15 and 20% of injection drug users have HIV and at least 70% have hepatitis C.

Do clean needle programs work?

Yes. Nonsterile injections can lead to transmission of HIV, viral hepatitis, bacterial, and fungal infections and other complications. By providing access to sterile syringes and other injection equipment, SSPs help people prevent transmitting bloodborne and other infections when they inject drugs.

Are needle exchanges legal?

Needle exchanges are now legal in 28 states and GOP lawmakers in Florida, Missouri, Iowa and Arizona have introduced bills to legalize needle programs in their states as well, according to a report from Kaiser Health News.

How do you clean a needle?

Pour some undiluted (full-strength, no water added) bleach into a cup, cap or something that only you will use. Fill the syringe by drawing the bleach up through the needle to the top of the syringe. Shake it around and tap it. Leave the bleach in the syringe for at least 30 seconds.

What can I use to clean injection?

2.1. 4. Skin preparation and disinfection

• Apply a 60–70% alcohol-based solution (isopropyl alcohol or ethanol) on a single-use swab or cotton-wool ball.
• Wipe the area from the centre of the injection site working outwards, without going over the same area.

Can you reuse your own needle?

Healthcare providers (doctors, nurses, and anyone providing injections) should never reuse a needle or syringe either from one patient to another or to withdraw medicine from a vial. Both needle and syringe must be discarded once they have been used.