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Martin, Peggy M.; Pilon-Kacir, Christine; Wheeler, Mare – Substance Abuse, 2006
Interdisciplinary groups of students learned screening tools for substance use and practiced skills of brief intervention while serving needs of a local free clinic.
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Service Learning, Clinics, Screening Tests
Tinkler, Emily; Vallejos Bartlett, Catalina; Brooks, Margaret; Gilbert, Johnatnan Max; Henderson, Randi; Shuman, Deborah, J. – Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2005
TIP 43 provides best-practice guidelines for medication-assisted treatment of opioid addiction in opioid treatment programs (OTPs). The primary intended audience for this volume is substance abuse treatment providers and administrators who work in OTPs. Recommendations in the TIP are based on both an analysis of current research and determinations…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Patients, Substance Abuse, Ethics
Bartlett, Catalina; Dinsmore, Janet; Gilbert, J. Max; Kornblum, Annette; Latham, Joyce; Oliff, Helen; Paisner, Susan; Sutton, David – Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2005
This Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) provides guidelines for counselors and criminal justice personnel who treat offenders with substance use disorders. TIPs are best-practice guidelines that make the latest research in substance abuse treatment available to counselors and educators. The content was generated by a panel of experts in the…
Descriptors: Sanctions, Juvenile Justice, Guidelines, Criminals
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Prendergast, Michael L.; Hall, Elizabeth A.; Wexler, Harry K. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2003
Evaluations of prison-based drug treatment programs typically focus on one or two dichotomous outcome variables related to recidivism. In contrast, this paper uses multiple measures of outcomes related to crime and drug use to examine the impact of prison treatment. Crime variables included self-report data of time to first illegal activity,…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Test Results, Substance Abuse, Crime