Traditional and other drug use(r) intervention: necessary critical parameters.
The presentation consisted of a number of pages listing major area topic headings and subheadings, some of which were further delineated. Its purpose was to serve as a framework and a guide for the exhibit's planning in order to help the visitor to actively consider: The complexity and multi-dimensionality of substance use and its interventions, past, present and future (both more immediate and more distant) in terms of areas, processes, models, stakeholders, and unresolved critical issues. That the traditional view that considering and understanding (a) types of drugs and their actions, (b) types of users and their focused-on characteristics and behaviors (and not their actual as well as potential strengths and limitations), and (c) some of the semantics of the field are sufficient for effective intervention, has resulted and will continue to result in built-in failures and unnecessary frustrations for a range of individuals (substance users and non-users) and systems. The dimensions of what is being focused on, their "demands," and the critical necessary conditions (endogenous and exogenous) for a posited concept, process, model, policy, etc., to operate (begin, continue, become integrated and anchored, change as realities change, etc.) or not to operate. What interests and whose interests have been served and which need to be served with and through substance use(r) intervention and/or non-intervention; who and what are the facilitators-promoters; barriers-preventers, as well as irrelevant foci that can and do use up limited intervention resources (human and non-human resources).
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Middle Eastern Summer Institute on Drug Use, Jerusalem, Israel. einstein@netvision.net.il
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