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Hser, Yih-Ing; Joshi, Vandana; Maglione, Margaret; Chou, Chih Ping; Anglin, M. Douglas – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2001
Studied the effects of program and patient characteristics on patient retention in residential, out-patient, and methadone maintenance drug treatment programs. Data for 26,047 patients in 87 programs show that threshold retention rates were generally low for all 3 program types, although program practice and service provision played important…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Drug Rehabilitation, Individual Characteristics, Patients

Powers, Keiko Ichikawa; Anglin, M. Douglas – Evaluation Review, 1993
Whether methadone maintenance treatment demonstrates cumulative (rehabilitative) or stabilizing effects on behavior of narcotics addicts over multiple treatment episodes was studied involving 993 addicts in a quasi-experimental design. Observed behavioral changes and longitudinal self-reports indicate stabilizing, but not cumulative, effects. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, Analysis of Variance, Behavior Patterns, Crime