Showing papers in "Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment in 1988"

TL;DR: A history of child sexual victimization may be much more prevalent among substance abusers than previously suspected and may be commonly missed if not assessed directly in every patient.

TL;DR: The chewing of leaves of the khat shrub is common in certain countries of East Africa and the Arabian peninsula, and some khat users are subject to psychic dependence on this stimulant.

TL;DR: The effects of alcohol and drugs on sexual function are important to consider in clinical histories and medication prescribing practices and a basic conception of the physiology and psychology of sexual performance are necessary to predict the course of the sexual dysfunction.

TL;DR: The findings show that men who were charged with battery A were considerably more likely than those charged with Battery B to have either a drug problem or a dual alcohol and drug problem.

TL;DR: This review derives guidelines for differential diagnosis based on multiple examples of interactions between major psychiatric disorders and various abused drugs.

TL;DR: Both staff and patients noted significant barriers to methadone detoxification, estimating the likelihood of completing a successful taper at 10% and 14%, respectively, and the need for counseling, role models of detoxified former addicts, and a wide array of available services.

TL;DR: This paper presents an outline of an innovative cognitive rehabilitation program designed specifically to meet the needs of neuropsychologically impaired alcoholic patients.

TL;DR: The author reviews a series of nine cocaine abusers successfully treated with long-term, in-depth, dynamic psychotherapy begun on an inpatient drug abuse unit and continued after hospitalization and argues that the cocaine abuse was functioning as a component of a repetition compulsion in which old psychological traumas were symbolically recreated in the post-drug dysphoria.

TL;DR: The RAATE is an instrument to develop a profile of the severity of the patient's illness and can be used by clinicians, health care managers and researchers in the chemical dependency treatment field, which lacks a common "language" for comparing patient populations, describing treatment progress, and communicating across disciplines.

TL;DR: It is suggested that alcoholism treatment can be effective for samples of socially stable alcoholics treated with multimodal treatments in a specialized, freestanding, alcoholism treatment facility.

TL;DR: The investigators conclude that the treatment procedure offers promise as a marijuana smoking cessation treatment program.

TL;DR: The authors conclude that on-site, voluntary HIV-antibody testing for drug abusing patients entering treatment appears feasible and is not a deterrent to persons entering and continuing in treatment for drug abuse.

TL;DR: Results indicated that alcohol counselors were not uniformly more accurate than mental health therapists, nor were more-experienced alcohol counselors uniformlyMore accurate than less-exper experienced alcohol counselors at recognizing intoxication or estimating BAL.

TL;DR: A group model of treatment for methadone-maintained pregnant women is described to help health care providers alter their own stereotypical attitude toward this population by highlighting the beneficial aspects of group psychotherapy.

TL;DR: The results showed that both the alcoholics and their spouses reported both intrapsychic and situational determinants of the relapses, and among types of determinants, the situational spouse was reported disproportunately more often by patients and disproportuned less often by spouses.

TL;DR: The assessment and stabilization of patients who suffer both major mental illness and alcohol/drug abuse is discussed, including psychosocial and pharmacologic strategies, giving special attention to the problem of the unmotivated patient.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe visualization techniques derived from Jungian principles, as a practical means for the recovery-oriented psychotherapist to foster a spiritual connection, which is also useful in work on the psychological and interpersonal issues that emerge as the client establishes abstinence and progresses from there.

TL;DR: Residents' evaluations of the program reveal overall satisfaction with the program and their roles in its conduct, but they indicate a need for more active roles in the hands-on management of emergency cases.

TL;DR: A patient who began cocaine use as a self-treatment for migraine headaches and developed a full-blown cocaine dependency disorder is described, demonstrating the need to address initiating and perpetuating factors in substance abuse.

TL;DR: Because the fastest growing minority group in the United States are Asian Americans, in which a significant proportion involve persons from Southeast Asia, those components in the Malaysian system that are applicable to Southeast Asian Americans were examined.

TL;DR: Reduced Environmental Stimulation Therapy (REST), formerly known as "sensory deprivation," was used in conjunction with pre-recorded anti-alcohol messages to reduce alcohol consumption in college students of both sexes who were "heavy social drinkers," that is, early prodromal alcoholics.

TL;DR: New pharmacological treatments stemming from advances in neurobiological research have been applied successfully to treatment of withdrawal states, but none have been demonstrated to be appropriate for long-term maintenance of abstinence.

TL;DR: This study demonstrates that the treatment process appears to be free of complications and is associated with successful outcomes in the majority of clients, and further improvement in outcome might result from simultaneous treatment of all household smokers.

TL;DR: Clustering procedures to the MMPI protocols of 196 chronic phencyclidine (PCP) abusers produced highly comparable results within each group, and the M MPI profiles found in each group were quite similar.

TL;DR: Examination of differential diagnostic considerations associated with the interaction between advanced cocaine psychosis and the neuropsychiatric manifestations of AIDS-Spectrum Disorders finds the potential for institutional countertransference in the treatment of substance abusing patients is illustrated.

TL;DR: This article details one approach being attempted at HERO, that of a community-based support group run by an indeginous worker where the emphasis is on support, education, and outreach to others.

TL;DR: Reduced Environmental Stimulation Therapy (REST) consistently lowers arousal to optimal, subjectively comfortable levels, without psychoactive chemicals, all of which are associated with high arousability.

TL;DR: This paper focuses upon an approach to risk reduction strategies employing education and disease prevention that has been used in a residential therapeutic environment and offers a practical working model that might be applicable in a variety of settings.