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Hard Choices Comic Book
This special comic book, developed by SAMHSA in collaboration with Marvel Entertainment and the Elks USA, features Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four characters in a battle against underage drinking. Hard Choices urges kids to become real-life heros by making healthy choices.
Parent Chronicles USA Today Open Letter Insert
The Parent Chronicles USA Today Open Letter Insert is a one-page ad insert that encourages parents to close the gap between them and their teens by sharing experiences with each other and their kids. It is co-branded with new Campaign corporate partner AT&T Inc., which is encouraging parents to stay more closely connected to their teens through technology.
NSDUH: Cigarette Use among Blacks: 2005 and 2006
Combined data from 2005 and 2006 indicate that nearly one fourth of blacks aged 12 or older were current smokers (i.e., used cigarettes in the past month). Among blacks who were current smokers, 80.4 percent used menthol cigarettes in the past month in 2005 and 2006. Overall and for most age groups, black males and females had similar rates of past year cigarette use initiation; the one exception was that females aged 16 or 17 were more likely to have initiated cigarette use during the past year than same-age males (9.6 vs. 5.9 percent).
DASIS: Cocaine Route of Administration Trends: 1995-2005
The proportion of primary cocaine admissions who smoked the drug declined from 79 percent in 1995 to 73 percent in 2005. In 1995, 63 percent of primary smoked cocaine admissions were younger than 35; by 2005, only 32 percent of primary smoked cocaine admissions were in this age group. The proportion of both inhaled and smoked cocaine admissions who were employed full time decreased between 1995 and 2005.
Client’s Treatment Companion: Matrix Intensive Outpatient Treatment for People With Stimulant Use Disorder
This pocket-sized book contains useful recovery tools and concepts and is designed to be used as a recovery journal. It encourages clients to record their relapse triggers and cues, list the things that keep their recovery strong, and personalize the book with meaningful pictures and phrases.
Getting High on Prescription and Over-the-Counter Drugs is Dangerous: A guide to keeping your teenager safe in a changing world
Teens today are abusing prescription and over the counter medications at an alarming rate. This brochure explains the trend and gives parents advice on what to say and do to help your children be healthy and drug-free.
Helping Yourself Heal - A Recovering Man's Guide to Coping with the Effects of Childhood Abuse
This guide is for men with substance use disorders who were abused as children. It explains some of the feelings that can surface when someone dependent on alcohol or drugs enters treatment. The guide also defines childhood abuse, lists symptoms of abuse, and informs the reader of how to handle childhood abuse issues while in treatment. Additional resources are included.
Ayudando a Sanarse a Si Mismo: Una Guia para Hombres en Recuperacion para Ayudarles a Enfrentar los Problemas Asociados con el Abuso Infantil (Helping Yourself Heal: A Recovering Man's Guide to Coping with the Effects of Childhood Abuse) (Spanish Version)
This guide is for men with substance use disorders who were abused as children. It explains some of the feelings that can surface when someone dependent on alcohol or drugs enters treatment. The guide also defines childhood abuse, lists symptoms of abuse, and informs the reader of how to handle childhood abuse issues while in treatment. Additional resources are included.
Core Competencies for Clergy and Other Pastoral Ministers In Addressing Alcohol and Drug Dependence and the Impact on Family Members
In November 2001, SAMHSA supported a meeting of an expert panel on seminary education that recommended the development of a set of core competencies to help addicted individuals and their families. This report details the content of a meeting to develop those competencies as well as the resulting core competencies.
Substance Abuse in Brief: What You Should Know About Alcohol
This Substance Abuse in Brief discusses such topics as how we define an alcohol problem and criteria for defining alcohol abuse. It covers alcohol dependence, a chronic disease that affects an estimated 5.4 million Americans aged 12 and older; established criteria for determining alcohol dependence; factors that may contribute to it; and the consequences, detection, and treatment of problems with alcohol. It also includes a list of references for further reading.
Anger Management for Substance Abuse & Mental Health Clients: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Manual
This manual helps counselors teach anger management techniques in a group setting through a 12-week cognitive behavioral intervention (participants use the accompanying workbook). The manual describes the anger cycle, conflict resolution, assertiveness skills, and anger control plans.
Anger Management for Substance Abuse & Mental Health Clients: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Manual (Spanish)
Spanish-language versions of Anger Management for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Clients: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Manual and the accompanying Participant Workbook. Programa para el manejo del enojo en clientes con problemas de abuso de sustancias y trastornos de salud mental: Un manual de psicoterapia cognitiva-conductual (Spanish-language version of Anger Management for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Clients: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Manual) This Spanish-language treatment manual helps counselors working with Spanish-speaking clients teach anger management techniques. The manual describes a 12-week cognitive behavioral group intervention. It helps counselors describe the anger cycle, teach conflict resolution and assertiveness skills, and help clients develop anger control plans. The manual is an adaptation of SAMHSA’s award-winning Anger Management series. DHHS Publication No. (SMA) 06-4188 NCADI Publication No. BKD444S
TIP 35: Enhancing Motivation for Change in Substance Use Disorder Treatment
This TIP, Enhancing Motivation for Change in Substance Use Disorder Treatment, shows how clinicians can influence the change process in their clients by developing a therapeutic relationship, one that respects and builds on the client's autonomy and, at the same time, makes the treatment counselor a participant in the change process. The TIP also describes different motivational interventions that can be used at all stages of change, from pre-contemplation and preparation to action and maintenance.
Brief Interventions and Brief Therapies for Substance Abuse
This Tip, Brief Interventions and Brief Therapies for Substance Abuse, is intended primarily for counselors and therapists working in the substance abuse treatment field. However, those portions of this TIP dealing with specific brief interventions will be useful to any professional service provider working with people with substance use disorders. The goal of this TIP is to make readers aware of the research, results, and promise of brief interventions and brief therapies in the hope that they will be used more widely in clinical practice and treatment programs across the United States.
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