Showing papers in "Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment in 2002"

TL;DR: Results indicate the ORC can contribute to the study of organizational change and technology transfer by identifying functional barriers involved and has acceptable psychometric properties.

TL;DR: Assessment instruments for measuring organizational functioning (based on ratings aggregated for staff and patients in a program) are introduced, along with preliminary evidence for their validity.

TL;DR: Personal motivations associated with meth use included: sexual enhancement; and self-medication of negative affect associated with HIV+ serostatus, which revealed meth use was associated with high rates of anal sex, low rates of condom use, multiple sex partners, sexual marathons, and anonymous sex.

TL;DR: Preliminary findings demonstrate an ACC approach designed for adolescents can increase linkage and retention in continuing care and improve short-term substance use outcomes.

TL;DR: The Texas Christian University (TCU) Client Evaluation of Self and Treatment (CEST)(1) is a 144-item self-rating instrument that includes 16 scales measuring patient functioning and treatment perceptions, and psychosocial functioning was generally reported and construct validity was demonstrated.

TL;DR: A review of the literature on club drugs can be found in this article, where the authors provide a brief overview of the existing literature on these drugs and their application in the medical field.

TL;DR: Gender differences in treatment process indicators among 293 HMO members recommended for substance abuse treatment did not differ by gender, but factors predicting these outcomes differed markedly.

TL;DR: An ambitious program of pharmacotherapy development research is currently being sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse in geographic areas significantly affected by MA use and the development of treatments for MA-related problems is particularly critical.

TL;DR: This analysis was designed to assess the predictive utility of organization-level features in understanding the adoption and implementation of new technologies in substance abuse treatment.

TL;DR: Gender differences in the relationship between psychoactive substance use and sexual thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are investigated, and it is indicated that different categories of psychoactive agents were associated with different effects on sexual behavior.

TL;DR: High dose ketamine psychotherapy produced a significantly greater rate of abstinence in heroin addicts within the first two years of follow-up, a greater and longer-lasting reduction in craving for heroin, as well as greater positive change in nonverbal unconscious emotional attitudes than did low dose KPT.

TL;DR: A large majority of the larger sample expressed an interest in receiving spirituality-focused treatment, reporting that such an intervention would be helpful for reducing craving and HIV risk behavior, following medical recommendations, and increasing hopefulness.

TL;DR: Future research should develop interventions to lessen the substance abuse consequences of physical and sexual abuse, and the association of PhySexAbuse with substance use consequences was similar across all ages.

TL;DR: It is concluded that using administrative databases to compare managed care organizations' performance is feasible, meaningful and informative.

TL;DR: Dyadic adjustment, frequency of heavy drinking, and frequency of drug use during the year after treatment mediated the relationship between type of treatment and the prevalence of male-to-female physical aggression.

TL;DR: The study uses data collected for a program evaluation of an enhanced substance abuse services program for mothers involved with the child welfare system to address the relation between services matched to client-identified needs and substance abuse treatment outcomes for women with children.

TL;DR: Moderate to high dose treatment with methadone reduced or eliminated opiate use in outpatient settings with consequent reductions in morbidity and up to 4-fold reductions in mortality.

TL;DR: This article describes the key ingredients and processes in transporting an empirically supported, research-developed family therapy for adolescent drug abusers, Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT), into an intensive day treatment program.

TL;DR: Reductions in overdose were linked to improvements in frequency of drug use and lower rates of injecting, and the view that treatment an important role can play in reducing deaths among drug misusers is supported.

TL;DR: Generally, acupuncture was not found to make a significant contribution over and above that achieved by conventional treatment alone in reduction of alcohol use, but significant improvement was shown on nearly all measures.

TL;DR: Clinicians from 11 community treatment programs associated with six research-clinic partnerships of the National Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network volunteered to be trained in Motivational Interviewing or Motivation Enhancement Therapy (MET/MI) and were assessed prior to training.

TL;DR: Recent advances in the field of contingency management are reviewed with attention to dissemination issues, and Counselor's reactions to the implementation of these techniques in individual and group treatment modalities are detailed.

TL;DR: The largest treatment study found that, of four different treatment modalities, methadone maintenance had the highest retention rate and length of time in treatment, regardless of modality, was the best predictor of outcome.

TL;DR: This article describes how the principles and practices of MI have been applied to patients who have psychotic disorders and co-occurring drug or alcohol use problems, and provides two supplemental guidelines to augment basic MI principles.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the medical records of 2595 consecutive admissions over a 3-year period to an inpatient mixed-gender, hospital-based alcohol and drug detoxification unit.

TL;DR: Evidence from other human service fields, and increasingly from the substance abuse field, indicates interpersonal strategies are dramatically more effective in achieving the individual and organizational behavior change needed to achieve technology transfer.

TL;DR: A continuum of correctional-based therapeutic community treatment programs for drug-involved offenders has been functioning for several years in Delaware and the relative benefit of participation in each component is supported, over and above the effects of differences in demographics and histories of criminal behavior and illicit substance use.

TL;DR: Design, training, and implementation challenges associated with conducting a clinical trial of brief behavioral treatments in community programs are discussed and issues requiring attention included the diversity in treatments offered across sites, heterogeneity in the study sample, and training of clinicians drawn from the staff of community programs to deliver the study treatments.

TL;DR: The purpose of this article is to review the potential advantages of reduced-risk drinking for clients with alcohol problems and to forward strategies designed to assist clinicians in safely treating clients who wish to reduce rather than abstain from drinking alcohol.

TL;DR: The dual diagnosis was perceived as more difficult than either disorder alone; but, interestingly, gratification in the work was higher than its difficulty; and difficulty and gratification appeared to be separate constructs, rather than simply opposites.