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Direct linkCook, Jana; McClure, Scott; Koutsenok, Igor; Lord, Scot – Journal of Teaching in the Addictions, 2008
In October 2006, the California Men's Colony (CMC) in San Luis Obispo, faced with staff recruitment and retention difficulties, took an innovative step to utilize long-term sentenced inmates as peer mentors and primary counselors to lead their prison-based therapeutic community (TC) program. The program was designed, developed, and implemented…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Mentors, Substance Abuse, Program Improvement
Trajectories of Heroin Addiction: Growth Mixture Modeling Results Based on a 33-Year Follow-Up Study
Hser, Yih-Ing; Huang, David; Chou, Chih-Ping; Anglin, M. Douglas – Evaluation Review, 2007
This study investigates trajectories of heroin use and subsequent consequences in a sample of 471 male heroin addicts who were admitted to the California Civil Addict Program in 1964-1965 and followed over 33 years. Applying a two-part growth mixture modeling strategy to heroin use level during the first 16 years of the addiction careers since…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Narcotics, Drug Addiction, Followup Studies
Prochaska, Judith J.; Fromont, Sebastien C.; Hall, Sharon M. – Academic Psychiatry, 2005
Objective: Nicotine dependence is the most prevalent substance abuse disorder among adult psychiatric patients and a leading cause of death and disability. The authors examined the extent to which psychiatry residents are prepared to treat nicotine dependence in clinical practice. Methods: Residents from five psychiatry residency programs in…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Substance Abuse, Smoking, Medical Schools
