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Does America spend enough on addiction treatment? Results from public opinion surveys
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These and other potential explanations for the paradoxically low placement of the addiction treatment industry among other socially important institutions in the United States are explored.About:
This article is published in Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment.The article was published on 2006-10-01. It has received 12 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Addiction medicine & Public opinion.read more
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Competing values among criminal justice administrators: The importance of substance abuse treatment ☆
TL;DR: Latent class membership was associated with the extent to which evidence-based substance abuse treatment practices were being used in the facilities, the region of the country in which the administrator worked, and attitudes toward rehabilitating drug-using offenders.
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Longitudinal trends in hospital admissions with co-occurring alcohol/drug diagnoses, 1994–2002
TL;DR: In this observational study, longitudinal trends in hospital admissions with co-occurring alcohol/drug abuse and addiction (ADAA) were examined to determine prevalence and hospital costs by payer group and type of drug used.
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Increasing the appeal and utilization of services for alcohol and drug problems: What consumers and their social networks prefer
TL;DR: The findings highlight the utility of viewing substance misusers and their social networks as consumers as consumers, and the implications for improving the system of care and for designing and marketing services that are responsive to user preferences are discussed.
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Analyzing performance in addiction treatment: an application of data envelopment analysis to the state of Maryland system.
TL;DR: Using data on 161 clinics in the state of Maryland, this article illustrates how data envelopment analysis (DEA), a methodology used widely in other settings, can be used to measure the performance of addiction treatment clinics and can help to identify appropriate benchmarks for clinics wishing to improve their performance.
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Valuation of Drug Abuse: A Review of Current Methodologies and Implications for Policy Making.
TL;DR: In this article, the use of several valuation methods as they relate to drug abuse and places them within the context of U.S. policy is reviewed and their impact on drug abuse is discussed.
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Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes
TL;DR: The fourth edition of the Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes as mentioned in this paper has been thoroughly revised and updated, making it essential reading for anyone commissioning, undertaking, or using economic evaluations in health care, including health service professionals, health economists, and health care decision makers.
Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes, Second Edition
TL;DR: The second edition of the first edition of this book was published in 1987 as discussed by the authors, and the second edition includes new chapters on collection and analysis of data and on the presentation and use of data.
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Cost-effectiveness in health and medicine
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Drug Dependence, a Chronic Medical Illness: Implications for Treatment, Insurance, and Outcomes Evaluation
TL;DR: Evidence that drug (including alcohol) dependence is a chronic medical illness is examined and results suggest that long-term care strategies of medication management and continued monitoring produce lasting benefits.
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The logic of congressional action
TL;DR: Arnab et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the influence of citizens' potential preferences, and argued that legislators also respond to these preferences in order to avoid future electoral problems, and showed how legislators estimate the political consequences of their voting decisions, taking into account both the existing preferences of attentive citizens and the potential preferences of inattentive citizens.
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