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Preventing substance abuse is a complex and difficult activity in our society, but one that is critically needed. Use, misuse, and attempts to control the use of drugs are apparently as old as civilization.1 Prevention is customarily divided into primary, secondary, and tertiary types. Primary prevention involves keeping individuals from beginning to use drugs. Secondary prevention is aimed at getting individuals who are already using drugs, but who are not yet chemically dependent, to stop. Early detection is the key to secondary prevention. Employee assistance programs, physician screening, court ordered referral (especially family and traffic court), teachers, and counselors can play important roles.2–3 Techniques used for primary prevention may be effective in some individuals, but others will require outpatient treatment. Tertiary prevention seeks to treat chemically dependent individuals and return them to society to lead lives of recovery. Outpatient treatment is effective for some individuals, but others, especially most adolescents, require inpatient treatment.
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Milhorn, H.T. (1990). Prevention. In: Chemical Dependence. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3418-0_6
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