Showing papers in "Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment in 2006"

TL;DR: This review focuses on methods for effectively disseminating new treatment methods into practice and how individual performance feedback and coaching improve the acquisition of clinical skills.

TL;DR: The purpose of this review was to systematically examine three main issues related to alcohol consumption among intercollegiate athletes: the prevalence rates and alcohol consumption patterns of this group, especially in comparison with those of collegiate nonathletes.

TL;DR: Examination of motivational enhancement therapy sessions from Project MATCH uses a sequential behavioral coding system to investigate the relationship between therapist behaviors and client speech, lending support to the importance of therapist behaviors in shaping client speech during MI sessions.

TL;DR: A systematic review of MI adherence and competence measures that have been developed and described independently elsewhere is provided.

TL;DR: Results indicate that the BTI has good content validity and is a reliable instrument for assessing barriers to drug treatment and is conceptually compatible with Andersen's model of health care utilization.

TL;DR: Results showed cell phone technology could reliably deliver a computerized survey; this homeless population would use a cell phone to report craving and using episodes, and drug use reported via EMA was in agreement with urine toxicology results for 73% of participants.

TL;DR: Comprehensive surveys of an addiction treatment service system can rapidly and economically produce estimates of prevalence, current practices, and barriers to evidence-based practices, critical for systems intending to enhance services to persons with co-occurring disorders.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined barriers to treatment at the latter stages of the treatment-seeking process, which was conceptualized as recognizing the problem, deciding that change is necessary and professional help is required, and seeking care.

TL;DR: In this article, structural equation modeling was used to estimate the associations between emotional exhaustion, turnover intention, and three measures of organizational culture: centralized decision making, distributive justice, and procedural justice.

TL;DR: These findings support the hypothesis that, under the same conditions, DAM could be safely delivered, in the context and imply that this treatment could provide an effective alternative for the treatment of socially excluded, opioid-dependent patients with severe physical and mental health problems because of drug addiction.

TL;DR: Examination of data gathered by treatment providers in Washington State demonstrated that openly LGBT clients enter treatment with more severe substance abuse problems, greater psychopathology, and greater medical service utilization when compared with heterosexual clients.

TL;DR: The overarching goal is to stimulate research and interventions that focus on organizational and management factors in the delivery of treatment services so as to improve the standards and outcomes of care in substance abuse treatment.

TL;DR: Event history analyses showed that clients who received substance abuse treatment were nearly twice as likely to have another child abuse report within 18 months.

TL;DR: Examination of buprenorphine adoption in community-based treatment indicates that early adoption was positively associated with center accreditation, physician services, availability of detoxification services, current use of naltrexone, and the percentage of opiate-dependent clients.

TL;DR: A positive therapeutic relationship may be particularly important for patients with low motivation, but mechanisms underlying this possible patient-treatment "match" remain to be determined.

TL;DR: Findings empirically support Miller and Rollnick's findings that any tears/ruptures in the alliance through the use of confrontation could significantly relate to poor outcomes.

TL;DR: Interventions were more successful at reducing IDU when participants were non-Caucasians, when content focused equivalently on drug-related and sex-related risks, and when content included interpersonal skills training specific for safer needle use.

TL;DR: The findings of this study illustrate the need to consider depression in the treatment of heroin dependence by showing depressed individuals had less exposure to methadone/buprenorphine maintenance and residential rehabilitation for the follow-up period, but spent more time in detoxification.

TL;DR: The results of this study support the enhanced effectiveness of integrated treatment in decreasing the use of higher cost crisis-oriented services in clients with severe mental illness and substance use disorders.

TL;DR: Specific drug use and overdose histories were associated with the greatest willingness to administer naloxone, and participants who had used heroin, injected drugs, or had a history of one or more accidental drug overdoses were significantly more willing to treat a companion who had overdosed.

TL;DR: In my field, bioethics, caution about new drugs and their use is a given and it is one of the obstacles that this drug has to overcome.

TL;DR: HIV risk, psychiatric symptoms, and overall adjustment were markedly improved among all patients who remained on treatment and did not relapse, regardless of group assignment, and more widespread use of naltrexone could be an important addition to addiction treatment and HIV prevention in Russia.

TL;DR: Examining the organizational structure, service delivery, and patterns of innovation adoption in two large samples of substance abuse treatment programs in the United States suggests that pharmacotherapies are more likely to be adopted in private centers, whereas notably effective voucher approaches are more common in public centers.

TL;DR: Results suggest that the CCQ/HCQ and the 14-item CCQ provide information that unidimensional VASs do not, and treatment dropout and in-treatment drug use were more frequently predicted by scores on the 12- or 45- item CCQ than by VAS ratings.

TL;DR: Comparisons of clients' functioning before and after treatment suggest significant improvements in a number of domains, including substance use, employment, legal involvement, mental health, parenting attitudes, and risky behaviors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a significant positive correlation was found between ASI composite scores (CSs) and DSM-IV diagnoses of dependence in both the alcohol (r >.7) and drug (r <.5) domains (p <.01).

TL;DR: The present study assesses the prevalence of items from a modified version of the Drug Abuse Screening Test, Short Form (DAST-10) for substances other than alcohol among undergraduate students.

TL;DR: Treatment was associated with lower levels of cocaine use over the 12-year follow-up period after entry into the index treatment and more stable recovery (i.e., continuously abstinent from cocaine for at least 5 years).

TL;DR: Treatment programs varied in corporate structure, source of revenue, patient census, and medical and non-medical staffing; medical services, counseling services, and staff education targeted HIV/AIDS more often than HCV or STIs.

TL;DR: Programs showed substantial similarities with regard to core social processes of treatment such as mentoring, role modeling, and social cohesion and Implications are considered for further research on treatment engagement, retention, and other outcomes.