This study combined both qualitative and quantitative methodologies to examine the perceptions of denial in a sample of pregnant and parenting chemically dependent women enrolled in treatment. Interview data revealed ...
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This study combined both qualitative and quantitative methodologies to examine the perceptions of denial in a sample of pregnant and parenting chemically dependent women enrolled in treatment. Interview data revealed that the women in the study had no trouble recognizing denial as a negative influence on the recovery process and were highly critical of denial behaviors displayed by other women in treatment. Learning opportunities, such as special focus groups (e.g., denial recognition, anger management), were identified by participants as the most helpful strategies utilized by treatment staff in dealing with issues of denial. Perceptions of denial were compared across selected demographic and psychosocial variables. No significant differences emerged, with one exception: women who reported recent histories of physical or sexual abuse were more likely to report positive feelings while in denial, such as feeling "normal" and "in control." than women who denied recent abuse histories.
A stratified, random sample of 80 providers in the Massachusetts Medicaid Managed Mental Health/Substance Abuse Program were interviewed by phone to assess their views of the program in year four. Providers continued ...
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A stratified, random sample of 80 providers in the Massachusetts Medicaid Managed Mental Health/Substance Abuse Program were interviewed by phone to assess their views of the program in year four. Providers continued to believe that access and quality were the same or better than a year earlier, that client severity continued to increase while length of stay decreased, that readmissions and emergency room admissions were the same as a year earlier, and that aftercare was the same or better than a year earlier. Substantial problems were reported in the integration of services, in linkages with support services, and with administration of the program.
This article proposes a systemic I reform of the organizational structure and delivery of substance abuse services for adolescents within the juvenile justice system. It first discusses the impact of substance use on ...
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This article proposes a systemic I reform of the organizational structure and delivery of substance abuse services for adolescents within the juvenile justice system. It first discusses the impact of substance use on the juvenile justice system and then reviews which drug treatment programs and services are currently available. Following an evaluation of the mast effective drug treatment programs and modalities, recommendations for system reform are given. The recommendations are based on a graduated sanctions framework, supported by systems collaboration and comprehensive case management. Systems collaboration between service providers must exist for juvenile;to receive appropriate and comprehensive services. Case managers (CMs) both assess juveniles and help them move through and between judicial, drug treatment, and social service systems. lit this way, juveniles receive the most suitable and complete services a community can offer while remaining:firmly under juvenile justice system supervision.
In this occasional series we record the views and personal experience of people who have specially contributed to the evolution of ideas in the Journal ’s field of interest. Jim Rankin is an Australian physician. Bot...
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In this occasional series we record the views and personal experience of people who have specially contributed to the evolution of ideas in the Journal ’s field of interest. Jim Rankin is an Australian physician. Both in his own country and in Canada he has made outstanding contributions to service development and professional education in the alcohol and drugs field.
Multilevel modeling was used to assess the program characteristics associated with treatment retention among 637 women in 16 residential drug treatment programs in the Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Study. Women who wer...
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Multilevel modeling was used to assess the program characteristics associated with treatment retention among 637 women in 16 residential drug treatment programs in the Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Study. Women who were pregnant or had dependent children had higher rates of retention in programs in which there were higher percentages of other such women. Longer retention was associated,vith higher rates of postreatment abstinence Bivariate analyses showed that programs with higher proportions of pregnant and parenting women provided more sen ices related to women's needs. The findings support the provision of specialized services and programs for women in order to improve outcomes of drug abuse treatment.
The authors present specific procedures for obtaining cost per closed case and a case outcome rating for each closed case, computer generated, yielding a cost-outcome report for single cases and aggregated cases. The ...
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The authors present specific procedures for obtaining cost per closed case and a case outcome rating for each closed case, computer generated, yielding a cost-outcome report for single cases and aggregated cases. The procedures are illustrated with field data from an alcohol and drug addiction service. Cost per closed case is seen as the new unit cost datum. Combined with case outcome information, the cost-outcome report is seen as a promising new measure of efficiency. The potential of the cost-outcome report as a new basis for professional self-development, increased treatment effectiveness, and program evaluation is discussed.
Biomedical understanding of methadone as a magic-bullet pharmacological block to the euphoric effects of heroin is inconsistent with epidemiological and clinical data. An ethnographic perspective on the ways street-ba...
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Biomedical understanding of methadone as a magic-bullet pharmacological block to the euphoric effects of heroin is inconsistent with epidemiological and clinical data. An ethnographic perspective on the ways street-based heroin addicts experience methadone reveals the quagmire of power relations that shape drug treatment in the United States. The phenomenon of the methadone clinic is an unhappy compromise between competing discourses: A criminalizing morality versus a medicalizing model of addiction-as-a-brain-disease. Treatment in this context becomes a hostile exercise in disciplining the unruly misuses of pleasure and in controlling economically unproductive bodies. Most of the biomedical and epidemiological research literature on methadone obscures these power dynamics by technocratically debating dosage titrations in a social vacuum. A foucaultian critique of the interplay between power and knowledge might dismiss debates over the Swiss experiments with heroin prescription as merely one more version of biopower disciplining unworthy bodies. Foucault's ill-defined concept of the specific intellectual as someone who confronts power relations on a practical technical level, however, suggests there can be a role for political as well as theoretical engagement with debates in the field of applied substance abuse treatment. Meanwhile, too many heroin addicts who are prescribed methadone in the United States suffer negative side effects that range from an accentuated craving for polydrug abuse to a paralyzing sense of impotence and physical and emotional discomfort.
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