Adopting a Tobacco-Free Campus Policy at a Substance Abuse Treatment Center

Adopting a tobacco-free campus policy at a substance abuse treatment center.

A tobacco-free campus ambassador program and policy compliance.

OBJECTIVE Assess impact and feasibility of a Tobacco-Free Ambassador Program on campus policy compliance. PARTICIPANTS Trained Ambassadors made 253 visits to campus sites over 15 months to observe and/or approach violators. METHODS Policy violators were observed at 23 locations during Wave 1 (April-June 2012) and/or Wave 2 (April-June 2013). For locations with at least 5 visits, average vio...

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy

Background: Regional incidence trends in regular heroin use are important for assessing the effectiveness of drug policies and for forecasting potential future epidemics. Methods: To estimate incidence trends we applied both the more traditional Reporting Delay Adjustment (RDA) method as well as the new and less data demanding General Inclusion Function (GIF) method. The latter describes the pr...

A categorical typology of naltrexone-adopting private substance abuse treatment centers.

This study used a diffusion of innovations theoretical framework [Rogers, E. M. 2003. Diffusion of innovations. 5th edition. New York: The Free Press] to identify organizational-level predictors of a categorical typology of substance abuse treatment centers based on naltrexone adoption. Data from the National Treatment Center Study (N = 158) were used to examine the impact of socioeconomic stat...

Tobacco-free Take Action!: Increasing Policy Adherence on a College Campus.

INTRODUCTION One in five college students report tobacco use, thus universities are making strides to reduce tobacco use by adopting smoke- or tobacco-free policies. PURPOSE Describe an innovative ambassador program to increase adherence with a tobacco-free campus policy. METHODS The Tobacco-Free Take Action! (TFTA!) Ambassador program was created to form an environment of compliance. Hot s...