Title: Improving drug abuse treatment /
Authors: Pickens, Roy W.; Leukefeld, Carl G.; Schuster, Charles R.; National Institute on Drug Abuse
Date: 1991
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute on Drug Abuse ;
Physical description: viii, 415 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: R
Contents: Overview of treatment issues / Roy W. Pickens, Bennett W. Fletcher -- Drug treatment services : funding and admissions / William Butynski -- Do more, and do it better : staff-related issues in the drug treatment field that affect the quality and effectiveness of services / John S. Gustafson -- Outpatient drug abuse treatment services, 1988 : results of a national survey / Richard H. Price [and others] -- Treatment outcomes for drug abuse clients / Frank M. Tims, Bennett W. Fletcher, Robert L. Hubbard -- Patient treatment matching : a conceptual and methodological review with suggestions for future research / A. Thomas McLellan, Arthur I. Alterman -- Client issues in drug abuse treatment : addressing multiple drug abuse / Thomas R. Kosten -- Addressing psychiatric comorbidity / George E. Woody [and others] -- Are there minimum conditions necessary for methadone maintenance to reduce intravenous drug use and AIDS risk behaviors? / Anna Rose Childress [and others] --^ Reducing illicit drug use among methadone patients / Maxine L. Stitzer, Kimberly C. Kirby -- Improving client compliance in outpatient treatment : counselor-targeted interventions / Mary E. McCaul, Dace S. Svikis -- Retention in drug-free therapeutic communities / George De Leon -- Using methadone effectively : achieving goals by application of laboratory, clinical, and evaluation research and by development of innovative programs / Mary Jeanne Kreek -- Using psychotherapy effectively in drug abuse treatment / Lisa Simon Onken -- Relapse prevention / Sharon M. Hall, David A. Wasserman, and Barbara E. Havassy -- Conditioning factors may help to understand and prevent relapse in patients who are recovering from drug dependence / Charles P. O'Brien, Anna Rose Childress, A. Thomas McLellan --Some special considerations for treatment of drug abuse and dependence in women / Jack H. Mendelson [and others] --^ Opportunities for enhancing drug abuse treatment with criminal justice authority / Carl G. Leukefeld -- Contemporary issues in drug abuse treatment linkage with self-help groups / David N. Nurco, Philip Stephenson, Thomas E. Hanlon -- Primary care and intravenous drug abuse treatment / Richard J. Russo -- Establishing a methadone quality assurance system : rationale and objectives / James R. Cooper -- Methadone maintenance and patients in alcoholism treatment / Enoch Gordis -- Community resistance to drug treatment program placement / Chauncey L. Veatch III -- The impact of AIDS on drug abuse treatment / Lawrence S. Brown, Jr. -- Improving drug abuse treatment / Carl G. Leukefeld, Roy W. Pickens, Charles R. Schuster.
Notes: "Based on the papers and discussion from a technical review ... held on August 28-30, 1989 in Bethesda, MD ... sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse"--T.p. verso.
Subject headings (LCSH): Drug abuse--Treatment--United States--Congresses.