Policy Analysis in relation to a Substance Abuse disorder
Conduct a policy analysis of policies written by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and WHO that are charged with addressing substance abuse issues that affect the health care of athletes and citizens living in the United States in order to determine effective ways to prevent substance use disorders related to illicit drugs and misuse of prescription drugs, particularly opioids.
Secondary Data Analysis in relation to Substance Abuse
Conduct secondary data analysis of drug treatment clients in soccer was to project illicit drug use trends that occur as a result of them being used by soccer players after injuries in order to see if any legislative intervention efforts that may be introduced to better regulate pain clinics and monitor opioid prescriptions and the use of prescribed opioid analgesics were effective.
Program Evaluation in relation to Substance Abuse
Finally, evaluate a substance abuse treatment program based on the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) implemented policies to find out the value of the evaluated program on treatment outcomes to find out whether the program is cost-effective as well as effective in preventing patients from relapsing and being treated for substance abuse disorder. Upon completing this evaluation, if successful, to be able to use this evaluated program on a larger scale for FIFA at the highest level
According to Healthy People 2020, the effects of substance abuse are cumulative, significantly contributing to costly social, physical, mental, and WHO such as Domestic violence, child abuse, motor vehicle crashes, physical fights, crimes, and suicide (HealthyPeople2020, 2019). For this reason, when thinking about some of the issues related to many public health problems associated with substance abuse and athletes, some of these factors mentioned above gave me an interesting topic to focus on in order for others to truly understand how drug or alcohol problems can severely become a public health issue.
As for the capstone, the ideas listed above can be supported by the fact that it is important to eliminate stigma and discrimination toward individuals with substance use disorders, treat substance use disorders as public health problems instead of criminal justice issues find evidence‐based prevention programs that can be implemented to prevent relapse and provide treatment and most importantly find ways to engage diverse stakeholders in coordinated policymaking to help prevent further substance abuse (Volkow, Poznyak, Saxena, & Gerra, 2017). By being able to implement some of the recommendations listed above, I believe that it is only a small step towards the battle of substance abuse disorders in athletes, something that many people do not really focus on because of the wealth of an athlete.
