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Status hearings in drug court: when more is less and less is more
David S. Festinger,Douglas B. Marlowe,Patricia A. Lee,Kimberly C. Kirby,Gregory B. Bovasso,A. Thomas McLellan +5 more
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Drug offenders who satisfied DSM-IV criteria for antisocial personality disorder achieved more weeks of urinalysis-confirmed drug abstinence when assigned to more frequent judicial status hearings, whereas subjects without APD achieved more abstinence and were more likely to graduate successfully from the program when assign to less frequent hearings.About:
This article is published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence.The article was published on 2002-10-01. It has received 96 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Drug Abstinence & Abstinence.read more
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Painting the current picture: a national report on drug courts and other problem-solving court programs in the united states
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The fifth edition of the addiction severity index
A. Thomas McLellan,Harvey Kushner,David S. Metzger,Roger H. Peters,Iris E. Smith,Grant R. Grissom,Helen M. Pettinati,Milton Argeriou +7 more
TL;DR: The clinical and research uses of the ASI over the past 12 years are discussed, emphasizing some special circumstances that affect its administration.
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An improved diagnostic evaluation instrument for substance abuse patients. The Addiction Severity Index.
TL;DR: The use of the ASI is suggested to match patients with treatments and to promote greater comparability of research findings, suggesting the treatment problems of patients are not necessarily related to the severity of their chemical abuse.
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Sociopathy and Psychotherapy Outcome
TL;DR: Opiate-dependent patients with antisocial personality plus depression responded almost as well as those with only depression, and the presence of depression appears to be a condition that allows the patient to be amenable to psychotherapy, even though the behavioral manifestations of sociopathy are present.
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Psychotherapy and Pharmacotherapy for Ambulatory Cocaine Abusers
Kathleen M. Carroll,Bruce J. Rounsaville,Lynn T. Gordon,Charla Nich,Peter Jatlow,Roseann M. Bisighini,Frank H. Gawin +6 more
TL;DR: These findings underscore the significance of heterogeneity among cocaine abusers and the need to develop specialized treatments for clinically distinct subgroups of cocaine abusers.