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Join Together, Boston, MA. – 2000
This kit helps communities use research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to make local prevention and treatment programs more effective. The kit describes some of NIDA's research on the nature of addiction and the anatomy of the brain's response to drugs. Suggestions are given for putting the NIDA principles of prevention to work,…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Drug Rehabilitation, Prevention, Program Development
Kushner, Marlene; And Others – 1979
This manual describes a Relaxation-Information Presentation program based on the clinical observation that anxiety is a serious barrier to detoxification for many methadone clients, and on experimental evidence indicating that expectations may play a greater role in the discomfort experienced during detoxification than the actual methadone dose.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Clinics, Drug Rehabilitation, Expectation
Sours, Floyd P. – 1979
This book presents a crisis management model that effectively bridges the areas of substance abuse and crisis intervention. A crisis alternatives model which can be incorporated into drug counseling programs is discussed, along with a four-step crisis intervention plan for use by crisis workers that includes: (1) establishing rapport; (2)…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Coping, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Qualifications