Issues in AIDS training for substance abuse workers

Article Abstract:

The increasing number of AIDS cases among intravenous drug abusers demonstrates the need for the thorough and systematic training of substance abuse workers on the treatment of drug-addicted AIDS patients. Few states have set up such training programs despite the report that 32.5% of all AIDS cases in 1990 involved drug abuse. Initiating a successful program requires five steps: assessment and information gathering, developing a curriculum, training teachers, deciding how to deliver the training and evaluation by trainees to provide feedback for refining the program.

Training, Diseases, Study and teaching, AIDS patients, Drug addicts, Drug abusers, AIDS (Disease), Drug abuse counselors

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Dimensions of adolescent drug-avoidant attitude

Article Abstract:

The underlying components of attitude related to adolescent drug and alcohol use and abuse are assessed through factor analysis. Results showed that peer attitude, alcohol-avoidant attitude, drug-avoidant attitude, performance attitude, image enhancement attitude and perceived parental attitude were correlated with drug experimentation and frequency of drug use. Drug- and alcohol-avoidant attitudesare outcomes of the attitude formation process while the four other factors influence the formation of internalized attitudes.

Psychological aspects, Analysis, Teenagers, Youth, Alcohol and youth, Juvenile drinking, Avoidance (Psychology), Drugs and youth, Juvenile drug abuse

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