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Volume 27, Issue 1 | Spring 2007
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A Passion for PreventionIt takes knowledge, compassion and patience to understand and care about prevention. If we simply depended on our gut reactions and media interest to decide where to place our effort, prevention would never happen. If you are a prevention worker yourself, if you know nothing about prevention but are curious, if you would like to see a healthier society, less subject to the depredations of addictive behaviour, take some time to read this issue of Developments. |
Making the Case for PreventionIn almost any area of social concern, prevention tends to be the poor sister, praised but scarcely funded. In the addiction field, we tend to give greater priority to crisis responses like treatment and enforcement. But prevention's champions—people like Dr. Tim Stockwell of the Centre for Addictions Research of BC—are hard at work changing that. By clearly defining prevention, providing evidence that it works, and using that evidence to determine the most effective strategies, they are laying the groundwork to bring prevention to the forefront of the addictions agenda. AADAC’s Approach to PreventionIn the 56 years since AADAC's first incarnation, our prevention strategies and tactics have changed greatly as our understanding of prevention has broadened and deepened. In this article, three AADAC employees involved in prevention programming and research discuss how prevention fits into AADAC's overall continuum of service, how we approach prevention, where we focus our efforts and how we evaluate those efforts. Prevention in Practice at AADACHere are some of the practical ways AADAC is supporting families, schools, workplaces and communities to prevent the harm caused by substance use and gambling problems in Alberta. Promising Practices in PreventionTo learn about current promising practices in prevention, Developments spoke with Dr. Tim Stockwell, director of the Centre for Addictions Research of BC, and Dr. Jeff Linkenbach, director of MOST of Us®, a non-profit social norms marketing firm in the United States, about prevention methods that are currently being used with great success around the world. The Back PageOn The Back Page of Developments you can read about conferences, learning opportunities, special events and recommended AADAC resources (always good and sometimes extraordinary value). If you want to advertise on The Back Page, contact the Developments editor for rates and deadlines. |
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