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Anyimukwu, Chizoba; Omondi, Angela – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 2020
Approximately 70% of 67,367 drug overdose deaths involved opioids with rates 4 times higher than in 1999. The purpose of this systematic review is to assess the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in opioid cessation. The search criteria for this review were: (a) published in English language between 2014 and 2019; (b) indexed in…
Descriptors: Intervention, Drug Abuse, Narcotics, Program Effectiveness
Graham, S. Scott – Written Communication, 2021
This article offers a longitudinal computational-rhetorical analysis of biomedical writing on opioids. Using a corpus of 1,467 articles and essays published in the "New England Journal of Medicine" and the "Journal of the American Medical Association" between 1959 and May 2019, this study evaluates diachronic shifts in (a) the…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Drug Abuse, Epidemiology, Medical Research
Wahesh, Edward; Likis-Werle, S. Elizabeth; Moro, Regina R. – Professional Counselor, 2017
This content analysis includes 210 articles that focused on addictions topics published between January 2005 and December 2014 in the journals of the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), Chi Sigma Iota (CSI), the American Counseling Association (ACA), and ACA member divisions. Results include the types of addictions content and…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Content Analysis
Robinson, Emma S. J. – School Science Review, 2011
Psychiatric disorders such as drug addiction represent one of the biggest challenges to society. This article reviews clinical and basic science research to illustrate how developments in research methodology have enabled neuroscientists to understand more about the brain mechanisms involved in addiction biology. Treating addiction represents a…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Research Methodology, Drug Addiction, Patients
"The Piety of Degradation": Kenneth Burke, the Bureau of Social Hygiene, and "Permanence and Change"
Jack, Jordynn – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2004
Kenneth Burke's employment with the Bureau of Social Hygiene informed his rhetorical theory in the 1930s. Between 1926 and 1930, Burke researched criminology and drug addiction and ghostwrote a book for Colonel Arthur Woods, Dangerous Drugs. An investigation of archives indicates that this research left its mark on Burke's Permanence and Change…
Descriptors: Hygiene, Drug Addiction, Rhetorical Theory
Advokat, Claire – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2007
Objective: A review of amphetamine treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was conducted, to obtain information on the long-term neurological consequences of this therapy. Method: Several databases were accessed for research articles on the effects of amphetamine in the brain of laboratory animals and ADHD diagnosed…
Descriptors: Animals, Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)

Kassel, Jon D. – Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2000
Reviews the theoretical and empirical bases from which inferences regarding addictive smoking in adolescence can be drawn. It appears that although a significant proportion of teenage smokers do progress to dependence, this is not an inevitable outcome for all adolescent smokers. More research is needed in this area, specifically in measurement…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Drug Addiction, Models, Research

Brooks, Valerie G.; Brock, Tina Penick; Ahn, Jungeun – Journal of Drug Education, 2001
Seeks to determine if pharmacists who attended a chemical dependency training program were performing more chemical dependency related activities. Results reveal that participants were more likely to perform the following activities: lecture to community groups about chemical dependency; participate in a pharmacists' recovery program; provide…
Descriptors: Drug Addiction, Outcomes of Education, Pharmacists, Professional Training

Thombs, Dennis L.; Osborn, Cynthia J. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2001
Three distinct clinical orientations were identified in a sample of chemical dependency counselors (N=406). Based on cluster analysis, the largest group, identified and labeled as "uniform counselors," endorsed a simple, moral-disease model with little interest in psychosocial interventions. (Contains 50 references and 4 tables.) (GCP)
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Counselor Characteristics, Counselor Training, Counselors

Faupel, Charles E. – Journal of Drug Education, 1985
Presents a sociologically grounded framework for drug treatment, positing three social processes: 1) dissociation from the addict lifestyle and subculture, involving sacrifice, renunciation and investment; 2) association with the treatment program and its goals, involving communion, mortification, and transcendence; and 3) a reintegration process…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Drug Addiction, Intervention, Models

Nathan, Peter E.; Lansky, David – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1978
Identifies common problems in research on the addictions and offers suggestions for remediating these methodological problems. The addictions considered include alcoholism and drug dependencies. Problems considered are those arising from inadequate, incomplete, or biased reviews of relevant literatures and methodological shortcomings of subject…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, Drug Addiction, Research Design

Prest, Layne A.; Protinsky, Howard – American Journal of Family Therapy, 1993
Considers addictions and construct of codependence. Offers critical review and synthesis of codependency literature, along with an intergenerational family systems framework for conceptualizing the relationship of the dysfunctional family to the construct of codependence. Presents theoretical basis for systemic clinical work and research in this…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Family Counseling, Family Relationship

Horton, Arthur M. Ed.; McKay, James R. Ed. – Evaluation Review, 2001
Articles in this special issue are reviews that focus on issues related to the evaluation of addiction treatment outcomes over longer term followup periods (2 years or more). The primary conclusion that can be drawn is that research evaluations of substance abuse treatment should reflect, to a greater degree, the chronic nature of addiction. (SLD)
Descriptors: Drug Addiction, Evaluation Methods, Outcomes of Treatment, Program Evaluation
Milford, Jaime L.; Austin, Julia L.; Smith, Jane Ellen – International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 2007
The Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA) and Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) are both highly effective and empirically validated psychosocial approaches to the treatment of addictions whose unique designs may help achieve certain public health objectives. Literature will be reviewed to examine the potential impact of CRA and…
Descriptors: Public Health, Reinforcement, Public Policy, Theory Practice Relationship
Slade, John – 1988
The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company is planning to introduce a so-called "smokeless cigarette". This product called Premier is an aluminum cylinder filled with porous alumina beads, corked with charcoal. The company has strongly hinted that the cigarette will provide the user with a dose of nicotine adequate to sustain nicotine dependence…
Descriptors: Drug Addiction, Drug Legislation, Drug Use, Marketing