Adolescent substance abuse, with its heterogeneity, its complexity and its association with
behavioural, physical and mental health problems is of increasing interest to many; the …

Aims. To assess the effectiveness of interventions directed at the prevention or reduction of
use of illicit substances by young people or those directed at reducing harm caused by …

The world of public health has undergone dramatic changes since the emergence of AIDS in
the early 1980s. The appearance and global spread in recent years of wave after wave of …

OBJECTIVE: Over the past decade, a body of observational research has accrued about the
effects of outreach-based human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) interventions for drug users …

Comprehending Drug Use, the first full-length critical overview of the use of ethnographic
methods in drug research, synthesizes more than one hundred years of study on the human …

Since the early 1990s culture has been considered an essential concept for understanding
the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the prevention of HIV (Parker, 2001). Despite consensus that …

This study compared food insecurity, nutritional status (as measured through anthropometry
and dietary intake), and food preparation patterns of low‐income Puerto Rican female out‐of …

▪ Abstract Psychology can and should be at the forefront of participation in social,
community, and preventive interventions. This chapter focuses on selective topics under two …

The Risk Avoidance Partnership (RAP) Project conducted in Hartford, Connecticut, tested a
program to train active drug injectors and crack cocaine users as “Peer Health …

The 18th and early 20th centuries witnessed the disintegration of a unified approach to
understanding the human condition. Political economy, the broad study of human society …