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Families living with drugs and HIV: Intervention and treatment strategies Richard P. Barth, Jeanne Pietrazak and Malia Ramler, Editors This book integrates information from many fields that is generally not shared among professionals who provide services to HIV-positive people or about families living with substance abuse and HIV/AIDS. Children in substance-abusing families are caught in a situation where health care and child welfare support services do not appropriately address substance abuse, poverty, sex, HIV/AIDS, and crack cocaine addiction. In New York City alone, by the mid-1990's, 50,000 children are estimated to have lost at least one parent to AIDS. Tracing the route of infection for most HIV-positive women (sharing needles during injected drug use or sexual contact with men who are HIV-positive), the authors assert that an interdisciplinary approach to service delivery is needed. They describe addiction, focusing on the problems of drug- and AIDS-affected infants and their families, and address ATOD abuse prevention, including approaches to prenatal care that help prevent a drug-affected childhood, and services to families already involved with drugs. They also evaluate legal options and policy initiatives.
Guilford Press
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Disclaimer Free To Grow is a national program supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with direction and technical assistance provided by the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University. |