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Family Involvement in Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment and Recovery
September 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Family involvement can inform policy and improve quality of care provided to youth in substance abuse treatment and recovery.
Perceptions of the State Policy Environment and Adoption of Medications in the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
January 1, 2012 | Journal Article
States play a role in promoting the adoption of medications for substance-use disorders and dependence.
Factors Related to Medicaid Payment Acceptance at Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment Programs
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Providing treatment for patients with substance abuse can result in significantly reduced lifetime medical costs. In order for more patients to receive substance abuse treatment, efforts must be made to increase acceptance of Medicaid at substance abuse facilities.
Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices for Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Disorders
October 1, 2009 | Journal Article
State substance abuse authorities can promote the adoption of evidence-based practices for substance abuse treatment. This article reports on interviews with SSA staff members conducted from 2006 to 2007 to assess strategies for EBP implementation.
Homelessness, Hunger and Material Hardships Among Those Who Lost SSI
April 1, 2003 | Journal Article
Alcohol, drug, social, and legal problems increase the odds of housing and food-related hardships.
Primary Care Follow-Up Plans for Adolescents with Substance Use Problems
July 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This focus of this study was to determine recommendations by primary care physicians (PCPs) and assess the relationship between their diagnostic impressions of substance use severity and plans for intervention.
Setting the Standard for Recovery
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study explores the issue of addiction among the physician population and the efficacy of certain programs designed to address it.
Adolescent-Only Substance Abuse Treatment
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment promotes the separation of adolescent and adult substance abuse treatment services as a benchmark for treatment quality. This report isolates organizational characteristics that determine the availability and quality of adolescent-only treatment for substance abuse.
The Influence of Program Mediators on Eleventh Grade Outcomes for Seventh Grade Substance Users and Nonusers
April 3, 2009 | Journal Article
The Take Charge of Your Life (TCYL) campaign was a universal school-based substance abuse intervention. A study of the program found that TCYL participants increased use of certain substances. This article assesses TCYL's effect on mediating factors to substance use.
Automating Addiction Treatment
January 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article focuses on the need to envision a more technologically enabled addiction treatment system in the year 2020, describes how this vision of the future might work, and offers ideas about how to achieve such a system.