This study employs a two-wave cross-sectional survey that measured substance abuse (SA) treatment professionals' knowledge (i.e. awareness), attitudes, and practices regarding the TIP series and the 28 specific TIPs, which were disseminated at study implementation.
The results revealed that low-income African-American men perceive HIV/AIDS as a threat to their community and they have placed themselves at risk of HIV infection based on unsafe sex practices, substance abuse, and lack of knowledge.
Method: The Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI) and measures of sexual behavior, condom attitudes and skills, HIV knowledge, and substance abuse were administered.
The cohort will undergo a training session at the Baltimore City Public Safety Training Facility near Pimlico Race Course to complement their existing knowledge of substance abuse issues.
"Pregnant women will be likely to avoid seeking prenatal or open medical care for fear that their physician's knowledge of substance abuse or other potentially harmful behavior could result in a jail sentence rather than proper medical treatment," the American Medical Association's Board of Trustees said more than two decades ago, in 1990.
Preliminary results obtained from this clinic-based sample suggest that these substance abusing mothers lacked important parenting knowledge and that this knowledge improved after comprehensive substance abuse treatment that included parenting training.
David A. Patterson, a professor at Washington University in St . Louis has firsthand knowledge of the substance abuse and other problems facing American Indian communities.
The questionnaire collected self-reported information on annual household income, medical insurance status, access to a primary care provider, risk factor assessment of substance abuse and sexual practices, HIV-related knowledge, self-perceived need for HIV testing, and HIV testing history.
There is also limited knowledge about HIV/AIDS and substance abuse amongst Malaysia's youth.
Analysis was focused on substantiation of the need for enhanced diffusion of knowledge related to screening for substance abuse problems to improve rates of SBI in primary care.
Together, neuroimaging tools offer great promise for the expanded clinical utility of imaging in the diagnosis, treatment, and enhancement of knowledge of the pathophysiology of substance abuse disorders.
