Download or read book Drug Abuse Prevention for At-Risk Groups (Classic Reprint) written by National Institute On Drug Abuse and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Drug Abuse Prevention for at-Risk Groups The goal of primary prevention is to protect individuals who have not yet begun to use substances to decrease the incidence of new users. The goal of secondary prevention (also called early intervention) is to intervene with persons who are in the early stages of substance abuse or who exhibit problem behaviors associated with substance abuse to reduce and/or eliminate the use. The goal of tertiary prevention (treatment) is to end substance dependency and addiction and/or ameliorate the negative effects of substance abuse through treatment and rehabilitation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.