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Canoe Journey, Life's Journey: A Life Skills Manual for Native Adolescents

Journeys of the Circle Project, Seattle Indian Health Board, UW Addictive Behaviors Research Center. Seattle: University of Washington Addictive Behaviors Research Center, 2005. 168 p.

This life skills intervention curriculum intends to provide Native youth with the opportunity to develop skills to help them make choices that motivate positive actions while avoiding the hazards of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. The Medicine Wheel / Canoe Journey metaphor is used as a way to teach life skills. The curriculum is designed to be used in a group setting. The Seattle Indian Health Board and the Addictive Behaviors Research Center at the University of Washington collaborated to develop the manual over three years as a part of the Journeys of the Circle project.

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Healing of the Canoe - New ADAI Grant

This three-year project will plan, implement, and evaluate a community-based and culturally-based intervention aimed at connecting Native American youth to their cultural heritage, as a means to reduce substance abuse and other health problems. The project will be highly collaborative between ADAI researchers and the Suquamish Tribe, a federally-recognized reservation community located in the Pacific Northwest. Investigators: Dennis M. Donovan and Lisa R. Thomas. Funding: National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities.

KCBA Drug Policy Project Conference

"Exit Strategy for the War on Drugs: Toward a New Legal Framework"

December 1-2 , 2005, Seattle

Sponsored by the King County Bar Association Drug Policy Project, this conference will bring together many of the nation’s leading academic scholars and reformers in the area of drug control policy to focus on practical alternatives to the War on Drugs.

Clinical Textbook of Addictive Disorders

edited by Richard J. Frances, Sheldon I. Miller, and Avram H. Mack.  New York: Guilford Press, 2005.  ISBN: 1-59385-174-X

This revised and expanded third edition is a clinical reference and text presenting state-of-the-science knowledge about all aspects of addictive disorders and their treatment. Leading researchers and practitioners describe best practices in assessment and diagnosis and provide the latest information on working with users of specific substances. Issues in working with particular populations--including culturally diverse patients, women, and older adults--are thoroughly addressed, and widely used psychosocial and pharmacological treatment approaches are reviewed. Featuring expanded coverage of comorbidity and dual diagnosis, the third edition includes entirely new chapters on the neuroscientific basis of addiction, addiction to gambling and to pain medications, and substance abuse in the workplace, as well as a chapter on dialectical behavior therapy.

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New Journals in the ADAI Library

These journal issues were received in the ADAI library during the week of November 14, 2005. (click links for tables of contents).

Addiction Research & Theory 13(5)
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 29(10)
Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy 12(5)
Journal of Addictive Diseases 24(3)
Journal of Studies on Alcohol 66(6)
Nicotine & Tobacco Research 7(5)

Talking with College Students about Alcohol: Motivational Strategies for Reducing Abuse

By Scott T. Walters and John S. Baer. New York: Guilford Press, 2005, 212 p. ISBN: 1-59385-222-3.

Grounded in current best practices, this book offers flexible, readily applicable guidelines for assessing and working with college drinkers. The authors provide practical advice on interacting with students in a range of contexts, from brief conversations in medical settings to motivational counseling sessions and group interventions. Also described are effective ways to weave alcohol prevention and intervention services into the fabric of campus life. Over a dozen appendices feature reproducible assessment instruments and other indispensable tools, in a large-size format for ease of photocopying and use. Supplemental materials for use in workshops, seminars, and other educational and training events are available online as PowerPoint slides.   Co-author John Baer is affiliated with ADAI, the UW Dept. of Psychology and the VA Puget Sound Health Care System.

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A History of the World in 6 Glasses

By Tom Standage. Published by Walker Publishing Company, Inc., 2005, 311 p. ISBN: 0-8027-1447-1.

This entertaining book presents a view of world history through the lens of the use and influence of six different beverages. The drinks chosen -- beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coca-Cola -- are used to highlight the flow of historical forces and the interconnectedness of different civilizations, from antiquity to the present day. Standage views the story of humanity from six different perspectives, based on the beverage that came into prominence in different times, places and cultures. Three of these drinks contain alcohol and three contain caffeine. Sections include Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt; Wine in Greece and Rome; Spirits in the Colonial Period; Coffee in the Age of Reason; Tea and the British Empire; and, Coca-Cola and the Rise of America; as well as a discussion of water as a beverage throughout history.

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