As we mentioned, early drug use increases a person’s likelihood of becoming addicted. Remember that drugs change the brain, which can cause addiction and serious problems. Therefore, proscriptive early drug or alcohol use can go a long way in reducing these risks.
The risk of using drugs increases substantially during the transition stages. A divorce or job loss can increase the risk of drug use for adults. For a teenager, risky times include moving, parental divorce, or changing schools.
When children move from elementary school to middle school, they must deal with new social, family, and academic situations that are difficult for them. Often during this period, they are first exposed to substances such as cigarettes or alcohol. Upon entering high school, there may be greater availability of drugs, older adolescents already given to use, and social activities in which drugs are used. When they leave high school and begin a more independent adult life at university or in a workplace, they may also be exposed to drug use, already removed from the protective structure provided by family and school.
Drugs Intervention Programs
These Drugs Intervention programs increase careful factors to reduce risk factors for drug use. They are designed for different ages and can be used individually or in a group setting, such as school or home. There are three types of programs:
- Universal Programs: Focus on risk and careful factors common to all children in a given setting, such as school or the community.
- Selective programs: for groups of children and adolescents exposed to certain factors that increase the risk of drug use.
- Programs indicated: they are designed for young people who have already started using drugs.
Pharmaceutical Intervention
Pharmaceutical interventions (PI) are an integral part of the clinical pharmacy approach and are derived from the pharmaceutical analysis of the prescription. Structuring IPs produced in the pharmacy is essential to ensure their traceability. Furthermore, the documentation and analysis of PIs is a significant issue for the recognition of the work of the community pharmacist, both by patients and other health professionals and the community.
Why Document Pharmaceutical Interventions?
Valuing The Pharmaceutical Activity
Pharmaceutical interventions are a reflection of the prescription analysis activity during the dispensation. By counting them, pharmacies demonstrate that they carry out PIs daily. The collection of IPs also makes it possible to quantify and qualify the provider’s intellectual work. The data documented in Act-IP Officine constitutes a public health observatory supported by the SFPC, which will allow the realization of banalyseslyzes and studies on pharmaceutical practices in the pharmacy to promote the recognition of these activities with decision-mainly as paying agencies. And supervision (ministries, health agencies, mutuals, etc.).
Improving Professional Practices
- Documenting and analyzing the PIs carried out by the pharmacy team improves the service provided to the patient. It is thus possible to identify the therapeutic classes that generate the most PI and to set up specific training actions.
- These actions also contribute to the quality approach. They improve by examining the problems encountered and the measures implemented to resolve them.
- This analysis also makes it possible to identify risky situations: is a patient more frequently associated with specific problems related to his therapy? Does a prescriber encounter difficulties with certain therapeutic classes? Identifying these situations makes it possible to implement more systemic actions, such as information for prescribers.