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Thus, it is important that social work professionals be cognizant of what beliefs they hold and how their beliefs about substance abuse treatment and prevention may affect practice.
Workers' embrace of these policy changes appears likely to shape how substance abuse problems are addressed within the welfare system.
These findings suggest that welfare administrators might usefully work with substance abuse providers to identify and serve welfare recipients with substance abuse problems.
The present study contributes to social workers' understanding of welfare clients' service needs and the extent to which their need for psychiatric and substance abuse services is met.
We conclude that a variety of factors affect motivation for substance abuse treatment among female sex workers, and that street-based outreach is a highly effective modality for linking this population with much needed treatment.
This study takes the work a step further in demonstrating how social workers translate substance abuse training into practice.
The results suggest that to fully understand the relation of supervisor social control to employee substance use, one must consider the dimension of supervisor social control, temporal context of substance use, and substance legality.
Workers’ accounts reveal that official welfare policy, day‐to‐day work conditions, relationships with clients, and the unstated stigma surrounding substance abuse create an environment that interferes with their identification efforts.
Despite evidence for the relationship of both employment and social support in substance abuse treatment outcomes, many programs are reducing services and lengths of stay.
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Ellen Meara, Richard G. Frank 
01 Sep 2005-Addiction
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In this paper, we argue that information on the social costs of substance abuse disorders and the level of spending on treatment is insufficient to determine whether current spending is optimal.
The present study adds to the growing substance abuse and employment literature.
The findings support the need to include substance abuse education in social work curricula.
This study contributes theory-driven research to the greater social work addiction literature by confirming that vulnerable domains related to substance abuse treatment utilization warrant unique considerations compared to nonvulnerable domains.
The results of the survey indicate a need to further assess social workers' role in substance abuse services and to identify training opportunities for the profession.
Our findings are consistent with previous research on the link between substance abuse and shift work, work environments, and the social conditions in boomtowns.
This study identified the areas of assessment, advanced clinical techniques, and dual diagnosis as priorities for future training among social workers working in substance abuse treatment facilities.
These findings suggest that the risks associated with substance abuse are not necessarily ameliorated with social work intervention.

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