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The role of family support services in drug prevention

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AuthorNiall Watters;Duane Byrne
AbstractThe role of the family - and family-based interventions - in responding to drug problems has been the subject of research internationally. The focus area of this study is concerned in particular with family support services in their role of strengthening families to act as a buffer to drug problems. The purpose of this research is to assess FSS with a view to establishing the following: 1) the extent to which current services explicitly identify drug problems as a target of their activities; 2) the extent to which family support work (that is both work done by drug agencies and general family support work which does not explicitly identify drug issues as one of its targets) may be judged to play a positive role in the prevention of drug problems; and, 3) the potential for expanding the scope of family support so as to enhance its capacity with regard to drug prevention. The survey found that there are wide focus areas of what FSS do in responding to the problems that families present with. This view of what family support does is evident from the multiple ways FSS in the study describe their work across the six categories of interventions of family support, as well as in their funding and community and/or voluntary-statutory sector origins. These services however, differ in their response to drug problems depending largely on the extent to which they see drugs as a major, minor or not a focus of their work.
PublisherNational Advisory Council on Drugs
Publication Year2004
Pages50
KeywordsFamily support services, Substance abuse, Drugs, Drug abuse, Intervention, Prevention
Record Number203
Accessible FormatNo information


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