HS 175 SUBSTANCE ABUSE EDUCATION, PREVENTION, AND INTERVENTION

3 Units 3 hours lecture
Transfers: CSU
Reviews the history, theories, models, and state-of-the-art approaches to substance abuse education, prevention, and intervention. Provides experiential learning which will enable the students to explore and examine their own values and behaviors as they relate to the use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs. Public policies, media-information dissemination, ethnic and cultural-specific approaches, environmental risk reduction, harm reduction, and healthy alternatives to substance abuse will be presented and discussed.
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