Prevention, family, and community

The “Prevention, family, and community” session was chaired by Dr Joseph Jror-Serk Cheng, who is an expert in community psychiatry and mental health policy and is Superintendent of the Bali Psychiatric Center in Taipei. Dr Shu-Lung Yang, Dean of Student Affairs and Professor/Director of the Crime Research Center, National Chung Cheng University in Chiayi, Taiwan, served as the discussant. The two presenters were Dr Louise Ann Rohrbach, who presented on “Prevention of alcohol and other drug abuse: Science, practice, critical issues, and future direction,” and Dr Dennis Daley, who spoke on “Family and social aspects of drug abuse: Implications for treatment and recovery.” Dr Rohrbach is Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Director of the Master of Public Health (MPH) Program at the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Dr Daley is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pittsburg, PA, USA.