Stephen F. Butler

TL;DR: The Current Opioid Misuse Measure (COMM) was found to have promise as a brief, self‐report measure of current aberrant drug‐related behavior, demonstrating excellent internal consistency and test–retest reliability.

TL;DR: Compared with professional psychotherapy, a manual-guided combination of intensive individual drug counseling and GDC has promise for the treatment of cocaine dependence.

TL;DR: The obtained psychometrics suggest that the SOAPP-R is an improvement over the original version in screening risk potential for aberrant medication-related behavior among persons with chronic pain, and is less susceptible to overt deception than the original SOAPP version 1.

TL;DR: The results question the assumption that greater control of the therapy variable is straightforwardly achieved with manuals and adherence scales and suggest that changing or dictating specific therapist behaviors to achieve technical adherence may alter other therapeutic variables in unexpected and even counterproductive ways.

TL;DR: In this article, a self-administered screening tool (Screener and Opioid Assessment for Patients with Pain, SOAPP) for chronic pain patients considered for long-term opioid therapy was presented.