The Pros And Cons Of HR Programs

PCN-501: Introduction to Addictions and Substance Use Disorders Grand Canyon University Even the most severely addicted individuals can participate in treatment; in the hopes of reducing their drug and alcohol use. Treatment programs with the higher success rates offer a combination of treatments. I will explore substance abuse prevention programs in this paper. I will summarize their goals, funding, and effectiveness.

education mitigation interdiction demand reduction Primary prevention programs are aimed at elderly patients that may need medication assistance. adolescents who require substance abuse treatment. young people who have not tried drugs. addicts that require prevention or follow up. In the public health model, programs designed to reach people who have started using some substances and to prevent them from abusing these substances or moving to more dangerous substances, would be classified as

Drug treatment centers have skilled staffs that are experts or specialists in drug treatment. These people shoulder a great deal of responsibility because their patients need to be carefully handled in the center and treated in a holistic way. Drug treatment programs should be well designed and flexible so that the

The goal of these programs is to provide treatment to reduce recidivism of inmates and provide them with treatment that will allow them to rejoin society. For the participants drug court acts as an intervention program. It functions by “addressing the problems associated with drugs use, learning skills to avoid relapse, increasing family involvement, and promoting accountability for offenders” (Goetz & Mitchell, 2006).

These programs are designed as tools to help the youth in the community avoid drug addiction.

thrown in as an option (Kramer et al., 2009). After implementing the restrictive sentences thousands of individuals were still rearrested; this method did not work unless the threat of going to prison was added (Horne et al., 2015). Treatment facilities that help drug offenders showed a link between drugs and crime that gave policy makers an opportunity to make mandatory minimum sentences, treatment sentencing, and various intervention programs a coping mechanism in the criminal justice system (Kramer et al., 2009). These alternatives did not solve the problem of drug abuse (Kramer et al., 2009). Rehabilitation centers may work to steady the drug addiction, but it may not always work for those who are dependent on drugs (Kramer et al., 2009)

Prison-Based Drug Treatment Programs Prison-based drug treatment programs benefits the criminal justice systems, inmates, and the community in several aspects. Treating drug abuse and/or addiction in the criminal justice field can improve public safety and health. Instituting prison reforms such as re-entry programs and substance abuse treatment; can result in a reduction of recidivism and cost saving. The main goal for drug treatment programs in prison is to transform the lives of those inmates that are suffering from addiction.

The success can mirror some of the success to the tobacco industry without putting anyone in prison. Harm Reduction and Drug Policy Alliance are just some of the groups working toward changing the views and laws regarding drugs and drug addiction. One issue harm reduction works with is drug treat-ment. The government is given substantially more money each year to drug law enforcement issues than treatment. In a seminal cost benefit analysis done in the early 1990s, the RAND Corporation compared the programmatic productivity and the costs of enforcing the “war on drugs” in terms of arresting and in-carcerating dealers and their agents, versus treatment. RAND’s research found that a dollar spent on drug treatment saves society seven and a half dollars in reduced crime and regained productivity. A good treatment facility will not only rehabilitate the patient from doing drugs but will also give them tools to go back into society and have a job and be a good citizen not committing crime. Also putting a drug abuser in treatment opposed to incarceration will give them a better chance at getting a job because they will not have a criminal record. Treatment is more successful to rehabilitate the drug abuser than any effort being made by law enforcement. Harm reduction helps to push the

Drug abuse is a major public health issue that impacts society both directly and indirectly; every person, every community is somehow affected by drug abuse and addiction and this economic burden is not exclusive to those who use substance, it inevitably impacts those who don't. Drugs impact our society in various ways including but not limited to lost earnings, health care expenditures, costs associated with crime, accidents, and deaths. The use of licit or illicit drugs long term, causes millions of deaths and costs billions for medical care and substance abuse rehabilitation and the effects of drug abuse extend beyond users, spilling over into the society at large, imposing increasing social and economic costs.

workers whose mental faculties are dulled by chemicals. Prevention is also the most cost-effective approach to the drug problem, sparing society the burden of treatment, rehabilitation, lost productivity, and other social pathologies, costs estimated at $160 billion per year.” In other words, if prevention efforts were effective, there should be a reduction in the social, personal, familial, societal, and economic harm of drug abuse and addiction. However, it is reasonable to disagree with this statement and the effectiveness of programs already put in place due to no evidence of reduction in the consequences of drug addiction in past years.

However, these contemporary views of the function of HR were considerably different during the Twentieth Century.

Studies have shown abstinence-only programming does not reduce the sexual activity of young people. In 2007, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a study about the abstinence programs. The government-funded study

After analyzing the bills introduced by the nation and the state, there are several inadequacies present at each level contributing to the development of ineffective substance abuse policies. National bills are less specific in their descriptions and pertain to issues that are not currently concerning to the state. Numerous national bills required stakeholders to fund substance abuse programs that are implemented and designed by the state. Although this creates locally sensitive programs, the nation provides little guidance in its development. This can lead to inaccurate interpretation and implementation; thus, developing programs that are ineffective and a waste of resources.

2- Society rejection of the idea as they believe how we help addicted people for addiction process, however because of their lack of information about that programs, so advertisement through the media is very important for overcoming that barrier. Does harm reduction has any role in increase disorder and threaten public safety and health of other healthy people? No scientific based evidence has definitely demonstrated that harm reduction programs do attract drug dealers; or do they compromise the safety and well-being of the surrounding community in any way. In fact, they have been found to do the opposite as it decreases the transmission of fatal blood borne diseases and with low cost benefit. They have a positive impact on public health by reducing the prevalence of blood-borne viruses such as HIV and hepatitis C.

The use of criminal restrictions for drug related crimes is not always an entirely punitive tool, and that penalties, or even the threat of them, often urge individuals struggling with addiction or substance abuse to get the treatment they might never seek or receive on their own, therefore increasing their opportunities to become productive members of society. In fact, more than one-third of all treatment referrals in the U.S.