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The Australian Drug Foundation is responding to the binge drinking problem in Cairns by rolling out its Good Sports program across North Queensland - a program committed to reducing alcohol related problems in sporting clubs.
Addressing recent Cairns media reports about a rise in dollar drinks and binge drinking, the Foundation's Tony Hewitt says "There is an urgent need to help Queenslanders understand the risk of binge drinking and the marketing ploys used to encourage excessive consumption of alcohol.
Sporting clubs are high risk venues steeped in a long-standing tradition of heavy drinking, providing the Foundation with good reason to introduce their Good Sports program nationally. Good Sports is an initiative of the Australian Drug Foundation committed to developing safer and healthier communities. The program is free and designed to help clubs shift their focus away from alcohol to young people and families without compromising revenue.
"With more than 3,000 clubs nationwide, we've just started rolling out our Good Sports program across North Queensland and I'm keen to see sporting clubs in Cairns embrace this exciting, new initiative," said Mr Hewitt.
Communities are today holding sporting clubs accountable for the care of their players, members and supporters, which is where Good Sports can help," said Mr Hewitt.
"Displaying the Good Sports logo sends an important message to club members and the community. It indicates that the club promotes a responsible attitude towards alcohol and provides a safe environment for players, members, families and supporters." medicalnews |
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Joan Cook, Ph.D., of Yale University and colleagues have been awarded funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to evaluate the implementation of two evidence-based psychotherapies for treating post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among veterans. The grant addresses the NIH Challenge Grant topic "Strategies to Support Uptake of Interventions within Clinical Community and Settings."
Strategies for promoting evidence-based PTSD treatments in the military are urgently needed as more and more soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan struggle with this disorder. The research team will characterize and assess the implementation of two types of therapy—prolonged exposure (PE) therapy and cognitive processing therapy (CPT)—within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) residential PTSD treatment programs. PE involves helping people confront their fear and feelings about the trauma they experienced in a safe way through mental imagery, writing, or other ways. In CPT, the patient is asked to recount his or her traumatic experience, and a therapist helps the patient redirect inaccurate or destructive thoughts about the experience.
Dr. Cook and colleagues will partner with the Northeast Program Evaluation Center, which monitors all VA mental health programming and patient outcomes, and the National Center for PTSD, which oversees the dissemination of PE and CPT nationally among VA providers. They plan to monitor and assess the efforts of more than 250 mental health providers in residential PTSD treatment settings via online questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and on-site observations.
The researchers note that the project may help improve the dissemination of other evidence-based treatments in federally-funded mental health systems.
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