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Module 5: young people, society and AOD: overhead transparencies

Reasons for use

Page last updated: 2004

  • To be sociable - 66%

  • Like the taste - 65%

  • To relax - 55%

  • Feels good - 48%

  • It's fun - 46%

(Saunders & Jeffries, 1993)

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  • Table of contents
  • Topic 1: Introduction
    • Learning outcomes
  • Topic 2: Values and attitudes to AOD use
    • Values
    • Awareness of values and attitudes
    • Rate these statements on a scale 1 to 10
    • Summary
  • Topic 3: Understanding AOD use in society
    • Reasons for use
    • Schaeffer's model
    • Recreational use
    • Intensive - compulsive use
    • Dependence
    • Negative effect
    • Models of drug use
    • Public health model
    • Models and central themes
    • Models that help us understand AOD use in society
    • Summary
  • Topic 4: AOD use by young people
    • Alcohol and tobacco use among young people
    • Summary
  • Topic 5: Factors influencing AOD use by young people
    • Systems approach
    • Assumptions of youth-focused framework
    • Other influential factors
    • Systems approach and AOD use
    • Summary
  • Topic 6: Harm minimisation in AOD work
    • Harm minimisation
    • Harm minimisation approach
    • Public health model and harm minimisation
    • Strategies
    • Summary
  • Topic 7: Current policies and legislation guiding AOD work
    • Historical development of national AOD policies
    • National drug strategic framework
    • Key stakeholders
    • Legislation
    • Balancing safety
    • Summary
  • Topic 8: Understanding the issues that have shaped the AOD industry
    • Dynamic policy area

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