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Take the decision to buy and use heroin (or pot, or coke or any illegal drug) and treat it like any other purchasing choice. Liken potential addicts to a group of consumers whose buying habits can be manipulated by celebrity endorsements, catchy slogans, and powerful images. Then use those tricks not to sell the product, but to un-sell it.
Reagan speaking at a "Just Say No" rally in Los Angeles, in 1987 "Just Say No" was an advertising campaign prevalent during the 1980s and early 1990s as a part of the U.S.-led war on drugs, aiming to discourage children from engaging in illegal recreational drug use by offering various ways of saying no.
An intensive outpatient program (IOP), also known as an intensive outpatient treatment (IOT) program, is a structured non-residential psychological treatment program which addresses mental health disorders and substance use disorders (SUDs) that do not require detoxification through a combination of group-based psychotherapy, individual psychotherapy, family counseling, educational groups, and ...
A survey [medical citation needed] of a cross-sectional sample of clinicians working in outpatient facilities (selected from the SAMHSA On-line Treatment Facility Locator) found that clinicians referring clients to only twelve-step groups were more likely than those referring their clients to twelve-step groups and "twelve-step alternatives" to ...
The 1997 version of the PSA stars Rachael Leigh Cook (pictured in 2024), a role she would later parody on the animated series Robot Chicken. The second PSA, from 1997, [3] featured 18-year-old actress Rachael Leigh Cook, who, as before, holds up an egg and says, "this is your brain", before lifting up a frying pan with the words, "and this is heroin", after which she places the egg on a ...
The PSA was produced by McDonald's to increase sales during the contemporary "Just Say No" anti-drug ad campaign, supported by the United States federal government and several other companies under the influence of Reaganite ideals. The PSA itself consists of Jordan warning about the dangers of drug abuse in a direct address to younger audiences.
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An additional cognitively-based model of substance use recovery has been offered by Aaron Beck, the father of cognitive therapy and championed in his 1993 book Cognitive Therapy of Substance Abuse. [64] This therapy rests upon the assumption addicted individuals possess core beliefs, often not accessible to immediate consciousness (unless the ...