The phrase "approaching substance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing something that is nearing a significant or meaningful quality or essence.
Example: "The artist's latest work is approaching substance, as it begins to convey deeper emotions and themes."
Alternatives: "nearing significance" or "approaching essence."
It was with some trepidation that I cracked open Ernest Cline's latest novel, "Armada". His previous bestseller, "Ready Player One," was entertaining but aggressively empty of anything approaching substance.
Having spent most of his career drearily re-treading the mockney guns'n'geezers routines which first brought him attention in Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Ritchie finally does the unthinkable and makes a thoroughly decent period thriller boasting humour, panache and even something approaching substance.
Tackling substances with both physiological and psychological links to sex requires approaching substance use and sexual behaviour in the same way that young people experience them; as part of the same social process.
Tackling substances with both physiological and psychological links to sex requires approaching substance use and sexual behaviour in the same way that individuals experience them; as part of the same social process.
"We should approach substance abuse as an opportunity to intervene, not incarcerate," Obama said.
Studies with smokers (Mogg et al., 2003) and cannabis users (Field et al., 2006) have demonstrated that substance users are faster to approach substance-related pictures and avoid control pictures than when they have to make the opposite response (i.e., avoid substance-related pictures and approach control pictures).
In several cases, the public health trend towards harm reduction approaches to substance use influenced the specific content and wording of smoking and alcohol use items: "And the smoking issue, I can't remember what research we had but…like the old prenatal record just said, you know, how many cigarettes you have in a day.
Electronic screening and brief intervention (e-SBI) approaches for substance use have shown early promise.
One would hope that this shift, in part, reflects an understanding of the failure of the punitive "war on drugs" approach to substance abuse.
Given these benefits, it is not surprising that computerised intervention approaches regarding substance use figure prominently in current literature [ 42, 50].
Meetings with patients in recovery : Residents can hear first-hand accounts of effective and ineffective ways that physicians approached their substance use condition from the patients themselves, creating powerful learning experiences.
