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SUBSTANCE ABUSE ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
Key Concerns:
- Women and substance abuse; not enough treatment
- Lack of $ and cuts
- Not enough primary prevention
- Integration of $ streams (government funding)
- Decentralization of medical support services
- Lack of treatment
- Information about programs (prevention)
- Lack of promotion of healthy lifestyles
- Integration @ public school education
- Involving community implementation and education
- The lack of education that substance abuse impacts other health issues
- National- erosion of family structure
- Parental (education) supporting underage drinking
- Public policy and lack of concern
- Public access to treatment
- Integration of services; disconnection of families
B
I O L O G I C A L |
Number |
- Hereditary Factors
- Genetics
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8 |
E
C O N O M I C |
Number |
- Easy access of and promotion of drugs in low economic neighborhoods
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6 |
- Lack of knowledge about societal cost of substance abuse
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4 |
H
E A L T H C A R E S Y S T E M |
Number |
- Physician's lack of knowledge of addiction and related issues
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11 |
- Lack of integration of Public Health and Substance Abuse Programs
(integrated funding)
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6 |
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I F E S T Y L E C H O I C E |
Number |
- Societal norms/acceptance
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8 |
P
H Y S I C A L E N V I R O N M E N T |
Number |
- Lack of family and neighbors' involvement in substance abuse prevention/neighborhood
policing
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11 |
P
S Y C H O - S O C I A L |
Number |
- Social acceptance - Rite of passage for adolescents
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6 |
- Lack of life skills for dealing with problems results in substance
abuse
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4 |
S
P I R I T U A L |
Number |
- Neglect of substance abuse issues by the faith community
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10 |
Areas of overlap from small groups
- Physicians' lack of knowledge & expectations (a health issue not
criminal)
- Public awareness
- Family and parental structure: single families, grandparents raising
children & children in foster care
- Lack of collaboration/difficulty untreated mental health issues
- Overnight change of social norms is difficult
- Lack of funding for treatment (fragmented & not enough) competition
- Fragmentation of services (Chemical dependency is not treated as a public
health issue)
- Stigma
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