MODELS

Prevention means a group of measures to avoid the appearance of a disease. There are 3 levels of prevention: primary, secondary and third, being from which only the first corresponds to this concept. Secondary prevention is used to designate the treatment itself, while third prevention means rehabilitation. Unfortunately, due to the great amout of alcoholic beverages, without a legal jurisdiction and adequate control, as well as the growing availability of other drugs and psychotropic medicaments, the most common strategies of primary prevention have no or little possibility of success, with poor results in terms of cost/ benefit in most part of the cases. This issue of primary prevention is complicated by the social and cultural concept of the use of alcohol and other substances. Throughout the years, the evolution of the concept of alcoholism and drugs has been observed.

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