Overview
Brings together scholars from across the behavioural sciences and public health
Focuses on prevention and intervention strategies to curtail substance abuse
Provides a research-informed, practical resource that will appeal to students and scholars
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Risk Factors, Impact on Health, and Challenges
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Prevention and Intervention
Keywords
- SDG 3
- rehabilitation psychology
- addiction practitioners
- determinants of health
- substance use disorders
- rehabilitation aftercare services
- psychosocial rehabilitation
- pharmacological rehabilitation
- alcohol addiction
- tobacco use
- non-communicable diseases
- substance use interventions
- Prescription drug misuse
About this book
The prevention and intervention strategies discussed include a comprehensive consideration of context-specific behavioural, environmental, psychosocial and cultural factors that may affect substance use. The chapters examine various aspects of use including, dependency, intoxication, and withdrawal in tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and other substances. The book provides a research-informed, practical resource that will appeal to students and scholars of psychology, psychiatry and public health; as well as to policymakers and practitioners in the fields of addiction, development and allied health.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Magen Mhaka-Mutepfa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Botswana where her teaching includes substance use and misuse within psychology and public health courses. She is a registered psychologist with more than a decade of cross-discipline experience in psycho-therapy support services. Her main research interests are on health and wellbeing, HIV and AIDS, abuse, and Ageing. Her current research is on Personal and Family Coping with COVID-19 in the Global South.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Substance Use and Misuse in sub-Saharan Africa
Book Subtitle: Trends, Intervention, and Policy
Editors: Magen Mhaka-Mutepfa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85732-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85731-8Published: 13 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85732-5Published: 12 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 191
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, Public Health, Social Work, Development Studies