Showing papers in "Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment in 2005"

TL;DR: Comparison of MITI scores before and after MI workshops indicate good sensitivity for detecting improvement in clinical practice as result of training, and implications for the use of this instrument in research and supervision are discussed.

TL;DR: These findings confirm that MMT at appropriate doses is the most effective in retaining patients in treatment and suppressing heroin use but show weak evidence of effectiveness toward other relevant outcomes.

TL;DR: The exploratory results suggest that multiple episodes of care over several years are the norm and that rather than thinking of multiple episodes in terms of "cumulative dosage," it might be better thought of as further evidence of chronicity and that the authors need to develop and evaluate models of longer term recovery management.

TL;DR: Overall, participants reduced the quantity and frequency of drinking by 50%, and had similar reductions in alcohol-related problems that were sustained through 12-month follow-up.

TL;DR: In general, training tends to improve attendees' knowledge, attitudes, and confidence in working with clients who have substance abuse problems and the role of workshop training needs to be a focus of future evaluative research.

TL;DR: The results help demonstrate the need to adopt a chronic vs. acute care model for substance use and identify promising targets for interventions designed to shorten the cycle and increase the long-term effectiveness of treatment.

TL;DR: Compared to men, women demonstrated greater improvement in family relationships and medical problems, and similar improvement in all other areas, despite the fact that more women were unemployed, had childcare responsibilities, were living with someone who also used alcohol or drugs, had been physically or sexually abused, and reported more psychiatric symptoms.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that sites which provided significantly more integrated counseling produced more favorable results in mental health symptoms and both alcohol and drug use problem severity and the same trend is observable for reductions in post-traumatic stress symptoms, although the difference does not attain statistical significance.

TL;DR: Overall, women rated the MES as highly acceptable and easy to use and reported significant increases in state motivation at postintervention and at 1-month follow-up (d = .49).

TL;DR: This article explores a series of issues, including the following: Why should EBTs be used in substance abuse treatment, and what kinds of treatment are E BTs, and how are they determined.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined differences in pretreatment characteristics, treatment perceptions and satisfaction, during-treatment changes, and 1-and 5-year outcomes among these three types of patients and tested whether differences in pre-treatment characteristics or during treatment changes could help explain post-treatment outcome similarities or differences.

TL;DR: In a logistic regression analysis, Beck depression was the factor that best distinguished between meth users who scored high and those who scored low on impulsivity.

TL;DR: A review of intervention programs for college students who are required to attend alcohol education or counseling in the United States found most of the reviewed studies used qualitative or quasi-experimental designs, did not include comparison or control groups, had small or selective sample sizes, lacked behavioral measures of alcohol consumption, and/or had no follow-up.

TL;DR: The interrelationship between substance use and IPV is examined, with an emphasis on clinical implications and options for substance-abuse treatment providers who are often called upon to address IPV during the course of working with their patients.

TL;DR: It is indicated that a substantial proportion of the clinical workforce is unaware of the effectiveness of buprenorphine in the treatment of opiate addiction.

TL;DR: There appear to be a number of advantages to computer and internet programs that focus on alcohol reduction and future studies will need to determine how to best make use of technology to reach larger numbers of students with an effective, individual approach.

TL;DR: In sites where the intervention condition provided more integrated counseling than the comparison condition, there are increased effects on mental health and substance use outcomes; these effects are partially mediated by person-level variables.

TL;DR: Meth-using adolescents may need enhanced treatment programming, because they appear to present for treatment with higher levels of dysfunction, and methamphetamine users reported greater psychosocial dysfunction and higher rates of substance use at treatment discharge compared with non-meth users.

TL;DR: The design, measurement, and analysis decisions behind the WCDVS are described and the foundation for understanding participant-level outcomes and service costs is laid.

TL;DR: It is concluded that injection drug users can be safely and effectively treated for HCV despite multiple barriers to treatment when they are treated in a setting that can address their special needs.

TL;DR: The results of this study show the promise of one preventive intervention to reduce AEP risk among college women and presents 1-month outcomes demonstrating the early impact of this intervention.

TL;DR: Results suggested that clients with greater socioeconomic disadvantage and more severe problems may require greater efforts to be retained in treatment, and those with legal supervision status at admission had higher completion rates and longer retention than those reporting no legal status.

TL;DR: Different therapeutic interventions may be needed in patients with different longitudinal patterns of additional substance use during MMT, including periods of daily abuse throughout MMT.

TL;DR: Licensure standards regulation can be an effective mechanism for increasing the quantity and quality of tobacco dependence treatment in residential addictions programs.

TL;DR: Longer retention times in index maintenance and residential rehabilitation treatments, but not detoxifications, were most associated with abstinence, while continuous abstinence was associated with a longer "dose" of treatment and with more treatment stability over the follow-up period.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that depression symptoms are an important factor affecting successful substance abuse treatment outcomes and treatment approaches that address depressive symptoms are likely to enhance substance Abuse treatment outcomes in real world clinical settings.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that the illicit use of opioid analgesics represents a problem among American high school seniors and effective prevention and intervention efforts are needed.

TL;DR: The ageing "baby boomer" population has higher rates of substance use than previous cohorts and is predicted to put increased demands on substance abuse treatment services; however, little is known about older illicit drug abusers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe knowledge about hepatitis C virus infection and interest in treatment among 110 opiate dependent patients from an opiate dependence treatment program in San Francisco, and suggest that methadone programs can play an important role in increasing access to HCV treatment through educating patients about treatment options.

TL;DR: The Adolescent Cannabis Check-Up was acceptable to young people and associated with reductions in cannabis use, and appears to be a model that warrants further research in early and brief interventions for this population.