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Drug-abusing offenders with comorbid mental disorders: Problem severity, treatment participation, and recidivism
03 February 2012
Adi Jaffe, Jiang Du, David Huang, Yih-Ing Hser
Abstract: This study examined problem severity, treatment participation, and recidivism among 1,016 offenders with co-occurring mental disorders who participated in California's Proposition 36. Partic...
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Fathers entering substance abuse treatment: An examination of substance abuse, trauma symptoms and parenting behaviors
03 February 2012
Carla Smith Stover, Chelsea Hall, Thomas J. McMahon, Caroline J. Easton
Abstract: Objective: The relationship between fatherhood and both psychiatric distress and severity of substance abuse (SA) among men entering SA treatment has not been well explored. This study was d...
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Addiction treatment-related employment barriers: The impact of methadone maintenance
02 February 2012
Lindsey Richardson, Evan Wood, Julio Montaner, Thomas Kerr
Abstract: Employment is commonly upheld as an important outcome of addiction treatment. To explore this attribution, we assessed whether treatment enrollment predicts employment initiation among parti...
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Problem recognition, intention to stop use, and treatment use among regular heroin injectors
02 February 2012
Rebecca Trenz, Typhanye Penniman, Michael Scherer, Julia Zur, Jonathan Rose, William Latimer
Abstract: This study investigated frequency of recent use as an explanatory variable in problem recognition and intention to stop use among regular injection heroin users. Data from the NEURO-HIV Epid...
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Comparing buprenorphine induction experience with heroin and prescription opioid users
02 February 2012
Suzanne Nielsen, Maureen Hillhouse, Larissa Mooney, Jacqueline Fahey, Walter Ling
Abstract: Prescription opioid (PO)-dependent treatment presentations are becoming increasingly common; however, most research on the treatment of opioid-dependent populations has been conducted in her...
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