Description: Since the 1980s, substance abuse prevention programs have taken a youth-based, "zero tolerance" approach; significant increases in abstinence have followed, but so have simultaneous increases in high-risk use. Arguing that the basic assumptions of this approach are flawed, authors Raymond P. Daugherty and Carl Leukefeld offer a dynamic alternative: the Lifestyle Risk Reduction Model, which reshapes alcohol and drug assumptions, messages, and strategies to make them relevant throughout the entire life span. Reducing the Risks for Substance Abuse fully details this revolutionary new paradigm, which includes -- Five Principles of Lifestyle Risk Reduction -- Five Conditions of Effective Lifestyle Risk Reduction, and -- the Lifestyle Risk Reduction Formula.

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