@article{1441806,
      recid = {1441806},
      author = {Mhaka-Mutepfa, Magen,},
      title = {Substance use and misuse in Sub-Saharan Africa : trends,  intervention, and policy /},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume)},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This book brings together scholars from across the  behavioural sciences and public health to examine substance  use in Sub-Saharan Africa. Divided into two parts, the  first chapters examine aetiology, signs and symptoms, risk  factors, impact, and psychosocial challenges relating to  use of conventional drugs, among others. The second section  focuses on prevention and intervention strategies to  curtail substance abuse. The authors provide a  research-informed, practical resource on sustainable  community health concepts, procedures and practices for  addressing substance use for the health and wellbeing of  partner communities. The prevention and intervention  strategies discussed include a comprehensive consideration  of context-specific behavioural, environmental,  psychosocial and cultural factors that may affect substance  use. The chapters examine various aspects of use including,  dependency, intoxication, and withdrawal in tobacco,  alcohol, marijuana, and other substances. The book provides  a research-informed, practical resource that will appeal to  students and scholars of psychology, psychiatry and public  health; as well as to policymakers and practitioners in the  fields of addiction, development and allied health. Magen  Mhaka-Mutepfa is an Associate Professor in the Department  of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University  of Botswana where her teaching includes substance use and  misuse within psychology and public health courses. She is  a registered psychologist with more than a decade of  cross-discipline experience in psycho-therapy support  services. Her main research interests are on health and  wellbeing, HIV and AIDS, abuse, and Ageing. Her current  research is on Personal and Family Coping with COVID-19 in  the Global South.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1441806},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85732-5},
}