Showing papers in "Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment in 1999"

TL;DR: Findings from the Los Angeles Target Cities Project indicate that the predictors of treatment engagement are generally confined to current treatment experiences, and women may respond more favorably to an empathic counseling style, whereas men may respond to a more utilitarian style.

TL;DR: An overview of what is known about the prevalence of substance abuse during pregnancy; the factors in women's lives, especially pregnant women, that lead to substance abuse and that facilitate and impede treatment success; and the components of successful treatment programs are provided.

TL;DR: SDPT is the first manualized individual treatment to undergo a controlled clinical trial and indicates efficacy in reducing PTSD severity, and is unique in having been designed for use in mixed-gendered civilians with varied sources of trauma.

TL;DR: A higher level of needs and services matching (defined either by the ratio of services received to services desired, or by the total level of met versus unmet needs in the eight problem areas) significantly predicted longer treatment retention.

TL;DR: In the present study, cue reactivity (feelings of depression, anger, tension, craving, and physical symptoms) reduced after protocolized cue exposure treatment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the association between clients' access to mental health services and the characteristics of drug treatment organizations, and concluded that organizational factors may influence drug abuse treatment clients" access to primary care and mental health service.

TL;DR: Results suggest that the AUDIT is a valid and reliable screening device for college students, and could play an important role in assessing youthful problem drinkers for early intervention programming.

TL;DR: Preliminary results from a randomized clinical trial suggest that key motivational processes are affected by GMI: patients perceive the GMI environment and group leader as significantly more "autonomy supportive" than treatment "as usual," suggesting that people will value and persist longer in behaviors that they perceive as autonomously motivated.

TL;DR: Results of a secondary analysis of a regional database of drug abuse treatment programs that compared the characteristics of women-only (WO) and mixed-gender (MG) programs across three treatment modalities found that WO programs differed in their policies regarding fees, sources of payment, special populations served, services offered, and treatment capacity, process, and duration.

TL;DR: Results of logistic regression analyses indicated that those with more intense abstinence symptoms, as measured by the CSSA, were five times more likely to terminate treatment prematurely than those who would fail in their initial attempts to achieve abstinence.

TL;DR: The purpose of this article is to test the applicability and utility of the Drug Evaluation Network Study (DENS), a timely electronic information system that tracks trends in substance abuse treatment.

TL;DR: Thirty-three focus groups were conducted with pregnant women in substance abuse treatment and their providers in order to identify factors in women's lives that facilitate and hamper their treatment process and successful program components to address the needs of this high-risk population.

TL;DR: It is determined that acupuncture detoxification programs are a useful component of a substance abuse treatment system.

TL;DR: It is recommended that HIV/AIDS prevention education and impulse control strategies are included in the treatment of adolescents with substance use disorders.

TL;DR: A single-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study was performed to evaluate auricular acupuncture (AAc) in the treatment of cocaine addiction with rare exception, the data failed to identify significant treatment differences among the true and sham Ac, and psychosocial groups.

TL;DR: The Survey of Essential Elements Questionnaire (SEEQ) was used in a field survey of 59 directors of agencies identified as TCs through their membership in Therapeutic Communities of America (TCA), showing a high degree of concordance in the perceived importance of a common set of treatment elements identified as essential to the TC modality.

TL;DR: A 20-session relapse prevention group therapy that the authors have developed for the treatment of patients with coexisting bipolar disorder and substance use disorder using an integrated approach.

TL;DR: It is suggested that naltrexone (150 mg) may be tolerable in patients dependent upon alcohol and cocaine and may be effective in reducing both cocaine and alcohol use.

TL;DR: A 12-month course of treatment including at least 6 months in a therapeutic community followed by outpatient treatment can produce marked reductions in drug abuse and crime among persons who complete both phases.

TL;DR: Sexual abuse alone was associated with time in treatment and the likelihood of graduation, and parental care and overprotection were inversely related, and related, in predicted directions, to perceptions of social supports.

TL;DR: Participants who received feedback and prompts were more likely to begin aftercare, and to attended more weekly aftercare groups, and they were less likely to be readmitted to the hospital.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared treatment outcomes of substance abusers with and without antisocial personality disorder (APD) randomly assigned to two therapeutic communities, differing primarily in length of inpatient and outpatient treatment, and hypothesized that APD clients would be less likely to complete treatment, more likely to test positive for drugs and recidivate at follow-up.

TL;DR: The results of this preliminary study suggest a high incidence of PTSD related to sexual trauma in a substance-abusing population of female veterans and ahigh incidence of substance abuse among female veterans who presented requesting help for sexual trauma.

TL;DR: The authors assessed sociodemographic, drug use, and diagnostic correlates of protracted homelessness in a sample of 147 dually diagnosed patients who required admission to the hospital, and confirmed that a history of injection drugUse, current unemployment, and a diagnosis of schizophrenia were positively associated with a history with protracted homelessness.

TL;DR: Key findings were that retention problems with homeless clients are as or more pervasive than in the general addicted population and the provision of housing increases retention, but the increases tend to be nullified when the housing is bundled with high-intensity services.

TL;DR: Although the rate of alcohol abuse among methadone patients was found to be high (compared to general population estimates), the rate was comparable to individuals who engaged in risk-taking behaviors and individuals under stress, such as college students and emergency room patients.

TL;DR: This article explores how treatments for substance abuse can draw from and integrate skills training and motivational strategies.

TL;DR: A naturalistic study to determine if higher methadone doses were more effective than lower doses in the outcome variables of illicit drug use, treatment retention, missed medication days, and ratings of patient progress by assigned counselor among 265 patients in a Department of Veterans Affairs Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program finds a significant effect by assigned therapist.

TL;DR: Results indicate that treatment retention has only a slight, though significant, effect on reducing criminal activity during treatment, and the fact that arrests did not decrease during a treatment period of 18 months on average requires more investigation.

TL;DR: The evaluation suggests that the AR-CARES program had an impact on the substance use of study participants, birth outcomes, and the growth and development of children.