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Friedmann, Peter D.; Katz, Elizabeth C.; Rhodes, Anne G.; Taxman, Faye S.; O'Connell, Daniel J.; Frisman, Linda K.; Burdon, William M.; Fletcher, Bennett W.; Litt, Mark D.; Clarke, Jennifer; Martin, Steven S. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2008
This article describes the rationale, study design, and implementation for the Step'n Out study of the Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies. Step'n Out tests the relative effectiveness of collaborative behavioral management of drug-involved parolees. Collaborative behavioral management integrates the roles of parole officers and treatment…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Behavior Modification, Contingency Management, Drug Rehabilitation
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Calu, Donna J.; Stalnaker, Thomas A.; Franz, Theresa M.; Singh, Teghpal; Shaham, Yavin; Schoenbaum, Geoffrey – Learning & Memory, 2007
Drug addicts make poor decisions. These decision-making deficits have been modeled in addicts and laboratory animals using reversal-learning tasks. However, persistent reversal-learning impairments have been shown in rats and monkeys only after noncontingent cocaine injections. Current thinking holds that to represent the human condition…
Descriptors: Cocaine, Animals, Drug Rehabilitation, Drug Addiction
Nicosia, Nancy; Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo; Kilmer, Beau; Lundberg, Russell; Chiesa, James – RAND Corporation, 2009
This first national estimate suggests that the economic cost of methamphetamine (meth) use in the United States reached $23.4 billion in 2005. Given the uncertainty in estimating the costs of meth use, this book provides a lower-bound estimate of $16.2 billion and an upper-bound estimate of $48.3 billion. The analysis considers a wide range of…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Crime, Quality of Life, Drug Therapy
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Bell, Nancy J.; Kanitkar, Kirti; Kerksiek, Kimberly A.; Watson, Wendy; Das, Anindita; Kostina-Ritchey, Erin; Russell, Matthew H.; Harris, Kitty – Journal of American College Health, 2009
Objective: The authors aimed to gain information on (1) the challenges for recovering students on a university campus and (2) the most helpful components of a collegiate recovery program. Participants: The 15 students in the study were all in recovery from substance abuse. They entered the university and also entered the campus recovery program…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Interviews, Student Attitudes, Drug Rehabilitation
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Petry, Nancy M.; Alessi, Sheila M.; Hanson, Tressa; Sierra, Sean – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2007
Contingency management (CM) interventions frequently utilize vouchers as reinforcers, but a prize-based system is also efficacious. This study compared these approaches. Seventy-four cocaine-dependent methadone outpatients were randomly assigned to standard treatment (ST), ST plus a maximum of $585 in contingent vouchers, or ST plus an expected…
Descriptors: Cocaine, Contingency Management, Patients, Reinforcement
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Borders, Tyrone F.; Booth, Brenda M. – Journal of Rural Health, 2007
Context: Illicit drug use is common in rural areas, but very little research has investigated rural populations' access to drug abuse services. Purpose: To describe the current state of the scientific literature on access to drug abuse services in rural areas and suggest directions for future research. Methods: We performed a literature review of…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Drug Use, Rural Areas, Drug Rehabilitation
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Bruns, E. J.; Burchard, J. D.; Suter, J. C.; Leverentz-Brady, K.; Force, M. M. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2004
In this article, the authors describe the development, psychometric characteristics, and potential utility of the "Wraparound Fidelity Index" (WFI), a multi-informant measure designed to assess providers' adherence during service delivery to the essential elements of wraparound. Results from 408 families across 16 sites in nine states indicated…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Drug Rehabilitation
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Bachar, Pnina; Ofri, Vinnie – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2009
The purpose of this research was to understand how student art teachers perceive the contribution to their training of community service in various frameworks, such as a prison and a drug rehabilitation center. The research was conducted in 2006-2007 in the School of Art at Beit Berl College, Israel, in two stages. In the first stage, six…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Service Learning, Rehabilitation Centers, Measures (Individuals)
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Olmstead, Todd A.; Johnson, J. Aaron; Roman, Paul M.; Sindelar, Jody L. – Substance Abuse, 2007
The goal of this study is to determine why recovering substance abuse counselors are paid less, on average and controlling for other factors, than nonrecovering substance abuse counselors. The data come from the 2002-2003 wave of the National Treatment Center Study and consist of 1,487 full-time counselors from nationally representative samples of…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Least Squares Statistics, Clinics, Counselors
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Rapp, Richard C.; Xu, Jiangmin; Carr, Carey A.; Lane, D. Timothy; Redko, Cristina; Wang, Jichuan; Carlson, Robert G. – Substance Abuse, 2007
The goal of this study was to more fully understand readiness for treatment in a pre-treatment sample of 446 substance abusers. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to: (1) examine the relationships between readiness factors identified in the Pre-Treatment Readiness Scale; and (2) identify the effects of predisposing, illness, and…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Structural Equation Models, Construct Validity, Therapy
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Walker, R. Dale; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1983
Tested the hypothesis of different treatment outcome of male alcoholics (N=245) as a function of neuropsychological performance, aftercare involvement, and length of hospitalization. Results indicated that neuropsychological performance was related to some outcome criteria and that there was a strong relationship of aftercare involvement to most…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Drug Rehabilitation, Males
Kissel, Bonnie J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Globally, approximately 208 million people aged 15 and older used illicit drugs at least once in the last 12 months; 2 billion consumed alcohol and tobacco consumption affected 25% (World Drug Report, 2008). In the United States, 20.1 million (8.0%) people aged 12 and older were illicit drug users, 129 million (51.6%) abused alcohol and 70.9…
Descriptors: Caring, Substance Abuse, Mothers, Smoking
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Elsheikh, Salah Elgaily – International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2008
Objective: The purpose of this study is to explore the attitudes of abstainers from drug use that relate to the factors leading to long-term abstinence. Materials and Methods: Cross-sectional study was carried out in Al-Amal Hospital to examine, which attitudes of abstainers related to long-term abstinence. A random survey was conducted on 62…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Drug Rehabilitation, Behavior Modification, Attitudes
O'Brien, Thomas – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2007
This paper critically examines methadone treatment from the perspective of adult and community education and questions the absence of rehabilitation. It identifies biomedicine and the methodology of evidence based medicine as the discourses that determine our understanding of addiction and treatment. It is especially critical of psychiatry for the…
Descriptors: Community Education, Adult Education, Psychiatry, Drug Therapy
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Hser, Yih-Ing; Evans, Elizabeth; Teruya, Cheryl; Huang, David; Anglin, M. Douglas – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2007
California's voter-initiated Proposition 36 offers non-violent drug offenders community-based treatment as an alternative to incarceration or probation without treatment. This article reports short-term treatment outcomes subsequent to this major shift in drug policy. Data are from 1104 individuals randomly selected from all Proposition 36…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Treatment, Criminals, Drug Use, Participant Characteristics
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