Dual Diagnosis: Adolescents with Co-occurring Brain Disorders & Substance Abuse Disorders Adolescents are often referred to treatment for substance ... in this treatment or services gap. Is dual diagnosis common? The combination of mental illness and substance ...

In any given year, only about 10% of the nearly two million adolescents exhibiting substance abuse or dependence in the United States receive substance abuse treatment. Given this state of affairs, it is unlikely that the massive effort and expenditure of resources over the past decade on developing, testing, and disseminating ...

Investigating concerns about uneven utilization of health services, especially affecting disadvantaged high-risk populations, the authors constructed composite indexes for identifying substance abuse treatment gaps in Rhode Island towns and multi-town planning areas. The Drug, Alcohol, and Substance Abuse Need ...

BackgroundCompletion of substance abuse treatment is a proximal indicator of positive treatment outcomes. To design interventions to improve outcomes, it is therefore important to unpack the factors contributing to treatment completion. To date, substance abuse research has not examined the ...

... to states under the substance abuse prevention and substance abuse treatment programs contained in the proposed Drug Abuse Prevention and ...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse established the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) in 1999 to improve the quality of addiction treatment using science as the vehicle. The network brings providers from community-based drug abuse treatment ...

This report provides evidence concerning the projected demand for substance abuse treatment services for older Americans over the next 20 to 30 years and suggests approaches for refining these projections. A work group of Federal agency representatives and university researchers was established by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health ...

The report provides a comprehensive review of child abuse and neglect concerns in Texas and offers a variety of recommendations. Data on the extent of the problem indicate that the need for treatment services has outstripped available resources. The direct and indirect costs of untreated child abuse are estimated. The joint study ...

... Title : Comparison of Young Navy Alcohol Abusers and Drug Abusers on Demography, Personality, Performance, and Treatment Outcome. ...

BackgroundDespite high levels of substance use disorders in Cape Town, substance abuse treatment utilization is low among people from disadvantaged communities in Cape Town, South Africa. To improve substance abuse treatment utilization, it is important to identify any potential barriers to ...

Despite the broad recognition in social work that services are more effective when they are tailored to individual client needs, we have only limited evidence of the impact that services matched to client needs have on treatment outcomes. This study examines gender differences in the impact of matched services, access services, and outcome-targeted services on substance ...

Despite the broad recognition in social work that services are more effective when they are tailored to individual client needs, we have only limited evidence of the impact that services matched to client needs have on treatment outcomes. This study examines gender differences in the impact of matched services, access services, and outcome-targeted services on substance ...

Drawing upon literature on the identification and treatment of abused women and their abusers, this pamphlet aims to alert social workers, especially those who work with abused and neglected children, to the incidence of wife abuse and the needs of abused...

Contents: Overview of child abuse and neglect; Rationale for law enforcement involvement; Recognizing child abuse and neglect; Reporting child abuse and neglect; Child abuse and neglect intervention; Preventing child abuse and neglect.

BackgroundThe gap between research and practice limits utilization of relevant, progressive and empirically validated strategies in substance abuse treatment.MethodsParticipants included substance abuse treatment programs from the Northeastern United States. Structural equation models were ...

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