Showing papers in "Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment in 2003"

TL;DR: Reductions in prevalence of cocaine use in the year after treatment by patients were associated with longer treatment durations and increases in full-time employment were related to treatment stays of 6 months or longer for patients in LTR.

TL;DR: Findings are disturbing and call into question the ability of the national treatment system to meet the complex demands of both the patients that enter this system and the agencies that refer to it.

TL;DR: Results showed that the parents' alcohol abuse may frame the childhood with parental violence, very high occurrence of family separations, and often foster care, as well as several long-term consequences for their 15- to 27-year-old children.

TL;DR: Data suggest that Seeking Safety treatment appears to be appealing to incarcerated women with SUD and PTSD and that the treatment has the potential to be beneficial, especially for improving PTSD symptoms, however, these findings are tentative given that there was no control group.

TL;DR: Clinicians were most likely to adopt naltrexone if they were affiliated with treatment programs that actively promoted its use, and information about it must be properly directed, clinicians must be convinced of its effectiveness, and the treatment organizations in which clinicians work must promote its use.

TL;DR: If methamphetamine abuse continues to increase and the consequences continue to be so devastating, researchers and clinicians could advance the field by particular focus on the treatment of this type of drug use.

TL;DR: Clients who traveled less than 1 mile were 50% more likely to complete treatment than clients who traveled more than 1mile, after holding constant demographic variables and type of drug problem.

TL;DR: Clinicians may decrease the likelihood of dropout directly by screening for risk factors and focusing facilitation efforts accordingly, and indirectly by increasing the supportiveness of the treatment environment, and facilitating 12-step involvement during treatment.

TL;DR: Treatment center administrators may improve staff retention by systematic attention to factors shown to enhance organizational commitment and reduce counselors' intentions to quit, such steps may include increasing counselor autonomy, providing rewards for strong job performance, and establishing a work environment that supports creativity and innovation.

TL;DR: Excessive partying, excessive partying, sexual identity, and grade point average were strongly correlated with ecstasy use, and significant relationships existed between ecstasy use and other substance use such as binge drinking, marijuanause, and cigarette smoking.

TL;DR: Patient attributions for their own long-term recovery were obtained in a 5-year followup of 432 admissions to 18 outpatient methadone treatment programs, indicating the importance of stronger efforts to develop social networks for support of drug-free functioning, especially among patients who lack these resources or need them strengthened.

TL;DR: Results of the survey indicate that there is an average of 25% turnover per year among treatment agency staff, and that the vast majority of this turnover is voluntary and stays within the treatment profession.

TL;DR: Although very few studies on treatment for marijuana abuse and dependence have been completed, the initial reports identify promising treatment approaches and demonstrate a need for more research on the development of effective interventions.

TL;DR: Investigation of factors that predict motivation with youth admitted to an adolescent outpatient substance abuse treatment program found diminished awareness of negative consequences of use was consonant with lower motivation, suggesting the importance of interventions to help youth recognizenegative consequences of their substance use.

TL;DR: Differences in background characteristics and in factors related to post-release outcomes for men and women suggest the plausibility of gender-specific paths in the recovery process.

TL;DR: A retrospective chart review of 113 consecutively admitted patients between September 2000 and September 2001 found that 66.4% of pathological gamblers had a lifetime history of substance abuse or dependence at some point in their lives as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The proposed model is designed to create a new generation of JDCs that maximizes the effectiveness of local resources and delivers research-based interventions to youth and families impacted by substance abuse and delinquency.

TL;DR: For example, the authors found that universal prevention programs may delay onset of drinking among low-risk baseline abstainers; however, there is little evidence supporting their utility for at-risk adolescents.

TL;DR: An initial examination of lapse and relapse to marijuana use among 82 individuals who achieved at least 2 weeks of abstinence during outpatient treatment for marijuana dependence suggests that early lapses were more strongly associated with consequent relapse.

TL;DR: It is found that alcohol treatment providers infrequently referred men with a pretreatment year history of IPV to domestic violence treatment programs, and that men receiving such referrals rarely followed the recommendation and sought additional treatment.

TL;DR: Methadone detoxification treatment was not associated with any increased risk of miscarriage in the second trimester or premature delivery in the third trimester, and there was no clear evidence that methadone withdrawal is harmful in pregnant opiate dependent women.

TL;DR: The Retrospective Study of treatment professionals designed to document how the Treatment Improvement Protocols published by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment have influenced the implementation of best practices showed that most treatment professionals are White and middle-aged and treat clients from different racial and ethnic backgrounds than themselves.

TL;DR: In this paper, exploratory findings from a prospective naturalistic alcohol treatment study employing the Reasons for Drinking Questionnaire are reported, and a relapse precipitants scoring algorithm is presented allowing relapses to be categorized as either negative affect relapses, social pressure relapses or craving/cued relapses.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that older patients with alcohol use disorders respond to age-integrated substance abuse treatment programs at least as well as do younger patients and are equally involved in formal and informal continuing substance abuse care.

TL;DR: The author describes his model of Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy, an approach that integrates a strategic skills-building focus with an exploration of the multiple meanings of substance use and the importance of the therapeutic alliance.

TL;DR: Test of risk and responsivity principles using a sample of clients from one site of a four-site randomized block experimental design study examining the effectiveness of a seamless system approach vs. traditional criminal justice supervision suggest the importance of the risk andresponsivity concepts in providing substance abuse treatment, particularly for high-risk clients.

TL;DR: The majority of respondents reported withdrawal-related barriers such as expecting to feel irritable, anxious, restless, and about half expected intolerable urges to smoke if they were to quit smoking, as most smokers do.

TL;DR: Treatment completers were 22% to 49% more likely than non-completers to be employed and to earn higher wages in the year following treatment, holding other variables constant.

TL;DR: The Drug Abuse Treatment Cost Analysis Program was developed and launched in the early 1990s to help addiction researchers and administrators estimate the economic costs of substance abuse interventions and resource distribution information for various treatment modalities serving diverse populations is presented.

TL;DR: Examination of sources of psychological and relationship distress among 90 nonalcoholic women with alcoholic male partners seeking outpatient, conjoint alcohol treatment indicated that greater psychological distress among these women was most strongly associated with lower satisfaction with the marital relationship.