abstract：:This article poses questions about the meaning of retention in substance user treatment. Retention has become a "gold standard" for substance user-treatment programs, suggesting it has become more than an indicator of positive outcomes, but a positive treatment outcome in its own right. Retention has been studied in n...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Walker R

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poor participation rates represent one of the most serious problems facing family-based drug-use prevention programs. Strategies involving incentives have been used to increase recruitment and retention of the target population of such interventions, but in Spain, such strategies for modifying behavior are unusual. Th...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Díaz SA,Pérez JM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on drug and alcohol treatment in Texas in 2005-2006. Findings are based on a secondary analysis of administrative data on 567 hurricane-related admissions and on interview data from a sample of 20 staff in 11 treatment programs. Katrina evacuees differed...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Maxwell JC,Podus D,Walsh D

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This qualitative study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse examines phenomenological meanings surrounding motivations for club drug use in a sample of HIV seroconverted and seronegative gay and bisexual men. Grounded in the cognitive escape model (CEM), this study sought to clarify the synergistic relations...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Jerome RC,Halkitis PN,Siconolfi DE

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the relationship between community characteristics and alcohol use among 6,636 youth, aged from 14 to 20, in 2004. After adjusting for individual-level characteristics, youth from communities with a greater proportion of grandparents as caregivers, larger numbers of married couple families, and hig...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Song EY,Reboussin BA,Foley KL,Kaltenbach LA,Wagoner KG,Wolfson M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from a survey of tobacco use conducted in 2001 was used to examine if Florida's youth-focused anti-tobacco media campaign, which focused on cigarette smoking, reached adults. The majority of the sample was white (87%), high school or college educated (85%), and over half with children (56%). Differences in awaren...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Delva J,Dietz NA,Perron B,Sanchez N,Woolley ME

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was conducted as an evaluation of a two-year pilot program started in 1998 in the Netherlands to provide free hepatitis B vaccination targeted at drug users (DUs). In order to identify which demographic and social-cognitive factors predict vaccination uptake, written questionnaires were distributed i...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Baars J,Boon B,De Wit JB,Schutten M,Van Steenbergen JE,Garretsen HF,Van De Mheen D

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A recent study comparing the Quick Drinking Screen (QDS) with the Timeline Followback (TLFB) found that in a nonclinical population of problem drinkers both measures produced reliable summary measures of drinking. The current study was designed to replicate these findings with a clinical population of alcohol...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Roy M,Dum M,Sobell LC,Sobell MB,Simco ER,Manor H,Palmerio R

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the feminization of the HIV epidemic in India and Bangladesh, understanding substance-use-related concerns among women is important for effective HIV prevention. This review is based on published research, reports (2000-2005), and primary data from treatment centers for drug-using women. We identify four main th...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Kumar MS,Sharma M

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although lesbians are believed to be at disproportionately high risk for smoking, few published studies have focused on smoking rates in this population. We examined and compared rates and demographic correlates of smoking among 550 lesbians and 279 heterosexual women in Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and in New York ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Hughes TL,Johnson TP,Matthews AK

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many studies have suggested that risk and protective factors are related to the use of drugs, their role has not been given due importance. More attention to protective factors could make them a fundamental tool in prevention programs. Since low socioeconomic level and adolescence are known as risk factors, t...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Van der Meer Sanchez Z,De Oliveira LG,Nappo SA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation evaluated the effect of expressive writing on weight gain in young adults being treated for smoking cessation. This study was conducted between July 2001 and June 2005. Participants (N = 196) ages 18-24 years (M = 20.8, SD = 2.0 years), who were recruited from a large city in the southeastern United...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Ames SC,Ames GE,Stevens SR,Patten CA,Werch CE,Schroeder DR

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This 2005 study compared parent-child attachment in 89 American female Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOAs) as compared to 201 non-ACOAs. Women attended a large university in the southeastern United States. Participants categorized as ACOA on the Children of Alcoholics Screen Test (CAST; Jones, 1983) reported signific...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Kelley ML,French A,Schroeder V,Bountress K,Fals-Stewart W,Steer K,Cooke CG

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 189 opioid-dependent subjects on methadone maintenance treatment in Barcelona (Spain), we assessed the prevalence of co-occurrence substance use and non-substance-use disorders (dual diagnosis) by the Psychiatric Research Interview for Substance and Mental Disorders [PRISM], and the impact on quality of life (HRQoL...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Astals M,Domingo-Salvany A,Buenaventura CC,Tato J,Vazquez JM,Martín-Santos R,Torrens M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parental substance misuse has often been cited as a cause of children being referred for investigation of child abuse and neglect. Research on how the substance use environment might affect this relationship is still in its infancy with primarily only cross-sectional studies finding a positive relationship of alcohol ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Freisthler B,Weiss RE

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community responses toward discarded syringes have the potential to threaten the sustainability of harm reduction interventions. Many retailers in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia, have expressed concern about drug use and the associated discarded syringes. The Melbourne City Council has responded...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Devaney M,Berends L

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low rates of participation constitute a serious problem for family-based drug-use prevention programs. This study analyzes the characteristics of calls for parents' participation in such programs through manipulation of the variables indicated by the Spoth and Redmond (1995) model as involved in the process (severity ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Perez JM,Diaz SA,Fernandez Hermida JR,Villa RS,Carballo Crespo JL,Rodriguez OG

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aim of the present study is to characterize the relevance of withdrawal symptoms during the first 12 months of abstinence and their relation to anhedonia and craving. METHODS:102 detoxified subjects meeting clinical criteria for Alcohol Dependence in Remission were recruited at various time since the detoxifi...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Martinotti G,Di Nicola M,Reina D,Andreoli S,Focà F,Cunniff A,Tonioni F,Bria P,Janiri L

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred alcoholic patients were interviewed at hospitalization and again 3 and 6 months thereafter in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from March 2002 to January 2004. Assessment included the SCID-I to check for the presence of Axis I mental disorders, a questionnaire focusing on patient relationship with AA groups, and sp...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Terra MB,Barros HM,Stein AT,Figueira I,Athayde LD,Ott DR,de Azambuja Rde C,da Silveira DX

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Canadian Special Senate Committee on Illegal Drugs (2003) noted that little ethnographic research had been devoted to exploring why people use marijuana recreationally or the social contexts in which it is used. The purpose of this exploratory qualitative research is to better understand both of these neglected to...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Osborne GB,Fogel C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper explores the varied implications of cure, healing, and recovery and considers why recovery is often the preferred characterization in relation to a medicalized drug dependency. The positive as well as the negative dimensions of recovery are noted; the ethical challenges of the primarily processual associatio...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Kleinig J

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compares peer helping and 12-step involvement among participants receiving chemical dependency treatment at day hospital (N = 503) and residential (N = 230) programs, and examines relationships between both variables and outcomes. Findings show that residential (vs. day hospital) participants reported signi...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Zemore SE,Kaskutas LA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although khat (Catha edulis) is not widely known outside its countries of production in East Africa and Yemen, it evokes strong views among consumers, development workers, and government officials who often behave as self-styled experts on the drug. Yet, the evidence of harm to health is scant. As khat consumption has...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Beckerleg S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of age, gender, tobacco-related knowledge, treatment modality, and changes in smoking patterns on intention to quit tobacco use among individuals participating in substance use disorder (SUD) treatment in Ohio. Of the 791 SUD program attendees, 91.7% currently...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Moore D,Langlois M,Gerber BM,Gaddis R,Hallam JS,Arnold R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marijuana use continues to be a problem among youth. Outcome expectancies influence substance-using behavior in both children and adults. Expectancy interventions are empirically supported. Despite their success, there is a lack of information regarding marijuana expectancies in youth from which to develop these inter...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Alfonso J,Dunn ME

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role played by key community representatives in the evaluation of community alcohol projects differs according to the evaluation paradigm adopted. In evaluations that adopt a positivist, experimental design they are cast in the role of independent informants. In post-positivist evaluations they are seen as having ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Boots K,Midford R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This short report describes an ongoing project whose aim was to explore how respondents from local institutions in a Swedish municipality describe their efforts in preventing alcohol consumption and related problems. Data were collected in focus group interviews, conducted during 2003 with key informants, comprising m...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Blanck P,Hensing G,Spak F

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the impact of a needle exchange policy change on community health. Data were collected from a needle exchange program in Eureka, California, for clients who participated in the program between the weeks (n = 112) of January 1, 2002, and February 28, 2004. Analysis was done using an autoregressi...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Tomolillo CM,Crothers LJ,Aberson CL

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With few exceptions, research in the addictive sciences has relied on linear statistics and methodologies. Addiction involves a complex array of nonlinear behaviors. This study applies two machine learning techniques, Bayesian and decision tree classifiers, in the assessment of outcome of an alcohol dependence treatme...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Connor JP,Symons M,Feeney GF,Young RM,Wiles J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assesses the frequency that users of illicit drugs display unprofessional behaviors in an employment setting. This research was conducted in the therapeutic workplace, a model employment-based treatment program for chronically unemployed adults with long histories of illicit drug use in 2003. Fifty-three un...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Carpenedo CM,Needham M,Knealing TW,Kolodner K,Fingerhood M,Wong CJ,Silverman K

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The comorbidity, separately, of alcohol dependence and consequences of drinking with illicit drug use is compared between Mexicans and Mexicans Americans, using data from the 1995 and 2000 U.S. National Alcohol Surveys (n = 830) and the 1998 Mexico National Household Survey on Addictions (n = 3313). Among drinkers, co...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Cherpitel CJ,Robertson M,Ye Y,Borges G,Bautista CF,Lown A,Greenfield T,Bond J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this work was to determine if a spouse's expectations about a married person's drinking patterns affected his/her partner's alcohol use and alcohol use-related problems. Alcohol use and problems were assessed in a U.S. urban sample of 634 couples at the time they applied for their marriage license (19...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Homish GG,Leonard KE

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Harm reduction is explored, historically, in terms of ideologies, concepts, processes, types, stakeholders, legal, policy, service delivery, and ethical considerations and their micro and macro consequences. Necessary critical conditions underpinning ideologies and programs throughout their life cycle are examined, as...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Einstein S

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study examined rurality and criminality as predictors of the lifetime HIV risk behaviors of 661 male, drug-abusing state prisoners. HIV risk behaviors included the number of lifetime sex partners, the number of lifetime drug injections, the number of times had sex with an injection drug user, and the frequ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Webster JM,Mateyoke-Scrivner A,Staton M,Leukefeld C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addiction is a contemporary social issue bound to the myth of self-control and control of the other, which is typical of the contemporary "market ideology" society. In its broad definition it includes not only the use and misuse of "substances" and addictive behaviors, but also the concept of risk. There is a continuu...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Allamani A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of a museology display and experience is presented. ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Levy-Aldema Y

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV and AIDS as a community(1) issue have not been dealt with extensively in the literature. One model that offers promise for development of effective prevention and intervention efforts is the Community Readiness Model, a nine-stage model that assesses the level of readiness of a community to develop and implement p...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Plested BA,Edwards RW,Thurman PJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown an increase in alcohol use in New York City in the months after the September 11 terrorist attacks; thus far there have been no studies documenting changes in drinking problems. In 2002, a random digit dial phone survey was conducted of residents of New York City. This study provided us with ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Vlahov D,Galea S,Ahern J,Rudenstine S,Resnick H,Kilpatrick D,Crum RM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article assesses the operations of Porto Alegre, State of Rio Grande do Sul, (southern Brazil) needle exchange program (NEP), a setting where HIV infection rates have been on the rise among injection drug users (IDUs) in recent years, contrasting with substantial declines observed in this population, in major Bra...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Bastos FI,Malta M,Hacker MA,Petersen M,Sudbrack M,Colombo M,Caiaffa WT,Project AjUDE II.

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After experiencing a period of rapid decline between 1986 and 1994, cocaine use is once again on the rise in the United States. The increased prevalence of use among college students is particularly troubling because of its potential impact on human capital acquisition and long-term labor market success. Merging infor...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Williams J,Pacula RL,Chaloupka FJ,Wechsler H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00