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An informal guide to the relative merits of various programs for dealing with specific drug abuse problems. The authors identify the origins of actual programs, describe their implementation, and track outcomes, focusing on delineating the differences between programs that work and those that don't. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Preventing Substance Abuse is an informal guide to successful programs for treating specific substance abuse problems, identifying their origins, implementation, outcomes, and, where possible, contacts for obtaining additional information. The emphasis is on information documented from outcomes of successful interventions rather than on theories of what should work or what works under experimental conditions. Key features include easy-to-follow charts and graphs and an appendix summarizing the National Structured Evaluation (mandated by Congress) of substance abuse prevention.
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