Examination of the change strategies associated with successful long-term sobriety remains an understudied area in addiction research. The following study recruited individuals with long-term sobriety (range 16-25 years continuous abstinence). Subjects (n = 11 were surveyed on demographic information, problem history, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) affiliation, and helping behaviors within several life domains over the course of sobriety. General helping behaviors increased from lower levels in the month prior to getting sober, to moderate levels at 1 year of sobriety, but did not continue to increase with additional years of sobriety. Levels of general help to others at home, work, and 12-step programs were similar at varying lengths of sobriety. Whereas overall levels of general help given to others were similar across settings, helping other alcoholics, as opposed to helping others at home or work, was rated as contributing the most to staying sober. Across time, alcoholics increased participation in helping behaviors specific to 12-step programs. The utility of helping others as a behavioral strategy to maintain successful addictive behavioral change is discussed.
Introduction:The Brazilian's Ministries of Defence and Justice took the initiative to create the project Agate 5, through which performance of the Brazilian Air Force - FAB, aims to curb the entry and movement of drugs in Brazil for the control and surveillance of the airspace boundaries. The Agate 5, aiming to look beyond the work of repression of drug trafficking, also preventing drug use, invited three professionals in addiction linked to ABRAD, Brazilian Association of Alcoholism and Drug Administration to work in this operation, in cities southern Brazil. This study reports the experience of these professionals in addiction Project Agate 5.Objective:Promote guidelines on prevention and treatment of chemical dependency, family treatment and health education for youth and children.Methodology:Lectures and dynamic guidance on issues related to addiction and health promotion.Development:The orientation on the prevention of drug use was presented by the ABRAD's group along with the official Brazilian Air Force - FAB, for educators and managers of the cities visited. Issues were addressed health promotion with children at a school visited by the group, in Porto Alegre, as well as guidance to adolescents participating in a social project in Foz do Iguaçu.Conclusions:The proposed objectives were achieved, and there is the possibility of teaching a course on chemical dependency counselors provided by ABRAD cities visited for training professionals to be area.
Carnival is considered the most popular celebration in Brazil and millions of people take to the streets, looking for fun. Howevwer, studies have shown increased consumption of alcohol and illegal drugs during this period. Ten years ago, Jorge Jaber, psychiatrist, addiction specialist, created the Carnival group "Joy without Hangover" preventive alcohol abuse and drug use, carrying the message that happiness is possible without the use of any drug. The band parades anually on Copacabana beach, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, with the support of the Mayor, and in 2013 brought together several communityy segments, besides hundreds of supporters of the cause. The band "Joy without Hangover" is inserted in the conceptual formulation of health promotion, as seen action on the individual, seeking behavioral change and lifestyle, according to the precepts of Verdi and Caponi (2005). Thus aim to contribute to change the view that associates the carnival with the consumption of alcoholic beverages and drugs, showing the dangers of using these substances.
IntroductionThe work describes a successful experience in the utilization of art as a tool to work the prevention of the use of drugs. The experience was developed with children and adolescents between the ages of 3 and 17 who reside in a risky area near Latin America's biggest dump, located in the city of Taguatinga, FD, Brazil.ObjectivesCreate a therapeutic space to make possible the dialog with the children and adolescents, promoting the prevention and the consciousness about the harm of the use of psychoactive substances, providing clarification on the theme, through art, being the use of formal language and terms, like “illicit drugs”, unnecessary.MethodsThe children, who participated in the project, used, as expression tool, several painting items. The public was divided by age in two groups: the children received ludic approach, allowing the team nearness and interaction with them, in such a way that the former transmitted information and guidance about the harm on the use of psychoactive substances.ResultsThe results were satisfactory. All the children and adolescents involved in the project demonstrated adhesion to the use of the offered tools and established a communication link, which allowed the receptivity of information about prevention in the use of psychoactive substances.ConclusionsThrough the developed activities, it was observed that the strategy utilization of art as a language had better effiency than a formal approach since the children and adolescents could have a learning space in a spontaneous way, demonstrating interest.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
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