abstract：:This study was designed to provide reliability testing and validity information of the Drug Attitude Scale (DAS). One hundred twenty-eight subjects were drawn from a residential substance abuse(1) treatment program within a community mental health center. Seventy-five percent of the subjects were males and 25% were fe...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Campbell SN,Chang A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Employment enhances the outcomes of substance dependency treatment. Unfortunately, although unemployed methadone treatment patients frequently state they are interested in a job, many fail to participate in vocational services when available. Unless patients become engaged, vocational services do not have an opportuni...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Kang SY,Magura S,Blankertz L,Madison E,Spinelli M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The upsurge of consumption of party drugs among adolescents in recent years in Hong Kong has been part of the global trend of adolescent recreational use of drugs at rave parties, discos and similar party settings. Scholars in Western societies have recently proposed the thesis of "normalization of adolescent drug use...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Cheung NW,Cheung YW

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated whether 333 seronegative African American female drug users (aged 18-59 years) participating in an HIV intervention and with higher levels of emotional distress, specifically symptoms of depression and anxiety, reduced HIV risk behaviors to a lesser extent than those with lower levels of emotional...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Sterk CE,Theall KP,Elifson KW

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is a review of some of the major epidemiological, behavioral, biological, and integrative prevention research issues and priorities in the area of HIV/AIDS and alcohol consumption. Drinking alcohol increases both the risk for infection with HIV and related illnesses and the morbidity and mortality of pati...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Bryant KJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to investigate whether the administration of questionnaires measuring subjective craving induces more craving for opiates compared to questionnaires measuring other subjective states. The study was conducted in 2000. The sample was composed of 53 patients that were treated as inpatients and outpatients...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： de Jong CA,Gongora VC,Engelhardt P,Breteler MH

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was conducted in June 2004 to find out the epidemiology of HIV infection among injecting drug users (IDUs) of Darjeeling District of West Bengal, eastern India. The district headquarter, Darjeeling town, also known as "Queen of Hills," is a beautiful spot situated in Himalayan West Bengal that attracts a large...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Sarkar K,Bal B,Mukherjee R,Chakraborty S,Niyogi SK,Saha MK,Bhattacharya SK

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Qualitative interview data from Project Tina, a formative investigation of methamphetamine use among gay and bisexual men in New York City, were used to explore the reasons men use methamphetamine. Interviews were conducted with 48 active methamphetamine users, and coding revealed that a majority of the men used the s...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Halkitis PN,Fischgrund BN,Parsons JT

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although young people attending raves have been most visibly associated with the use of ecstasy and other "club drugs" in the United States, there is reason to believe that they are not a homogenous group in terms of their drug use practices. The purpose of this article is to begin developing a typology of young adult...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： McCaughan JA,Carlson RG,Falck RS,Siegal HA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this investigation, secondary analyses were performed on an extensive database for 473 biological and 128 adoptive families. These data, which were gathered as part of the Vancouver Family Survey, were used to examine the prevalence and predictors of "heavy" marijuana use in a Canadian youth sample aged 14-25. Resu...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Barnes GE,Barnes MD,Patton D

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focuses mainly on youths' opinions about their delinquency and drug use trajectories. A qualitative approach was taken for this phenomenological research. The life account method was used to conduct a total of 62 interviews: 36 boys and 26 girls recruited in youth detention and addiction treatment centers, ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Brunelle N,Cousineau MM,Brochu S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic interventions to treat alcoholism have increased in number, including several pharmacotherapies. Aspects of epidemiology, gender, and psychiatric comorbidity as well as a brief overview of neurobiology are presented as an introduction. The medications used clinically for the treatment of alcoholism, disulf...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Buonopane A,Petrakis IL

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite a number of recent evaluations demonstrating the effectiveness of "drug court" programs for reducing both substance abuse and criminal behavior, some authors have recently called for more thorough process evaluations (inside the "black box" of treatment) of these programs. Specifically, this article describes ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Bouffard JA,Smith S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The original Self-Administered Alcoholism Screening Test (SAAST; Swenson and Morse, 1975) is a self-report alcoholism screening measure intended for use with adult medical patients. However, the SAAST does not indicate the recency of alcohol use-related problems, not all items use the appropriate verb tense for assess...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Vickers-Douglas KS,Patten CA,Decker PA,Offord KP,Colligan RC,Islam-Zwart KA,Wolter TD,Croghan IT,Hall-Flavin D,Hurt RD

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of a single drug, i.e., alcohol, against a multiple drug preventive intervention. METHODS:A controlled trial was conducted with 448 8th grade students (mean age = 13 years old) from an inner-city middle school (n = 216) and a rural junior high school (n = ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Werch CE,Moore MM,Diclemente CC,Owen DM,Carlson JM,Jobli E

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research has suggested that depression causes teens to begin smoking to elevate their mood. Other studies, however, have suggested the reverse causal direction: smoking causes depression. To gain a more complete understanding of the relationship between smoking and depression, potential mediators should be expl...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Ritt-Olson A,Unger J,Valente T,Nezami E,Chou CP,Trinidad D,Milam J,Earleywine M,Tan S,Johnson CA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Brazil, the medicinal misuse of trihexyphenidyl (Artane) has been observed among several segments of society. The present study was conducted in the city of São Paulo during 2002 to characterize this abuse. A sample of 21 users and 16 ex-users was interviewed using qualitative methodology; the subjects were single,...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Nappo SA,de Oliveira LG,Sanchez Zv,Carlini Ede A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Communication of accurate, objective, and timely scientific information to treatment professionals is important--especially in the "drug abuse" and addiction field where misinformation and a lack of exposure to new information are common. The purpose of this study was to assess knowledge and belief changes that accomp...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Lawson KA,Wilcox RE,Littlefield JH,Pituch KA,Erickson CK

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using latent growth curve modeling, the current study investigated gender moderation of the longitudinal pathways from internalizing to both social competency (i.e., social assertiveness) and the initiation of substance use (i.e., tobacco, alcohol, marijuana), as well as the effect of a preventive intervention on that...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Lillehoj CJ,Trudeau L,Spoth R,Wickrama KA

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article discusses the conceptual, ethical, and policy issues raised by the legal classification of drug addiction as an impairment, and of some nonusing drug addicts as people with disabilities. It focuses on the questions of (1) what moral judgments, if any, underlie the classification of addiction as an impairm...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Wasserman D

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If an important objective of addiction treatment is to increase patient employment, then it makes sense to locate vocational assistance within treatment programs. The purpose of this special issue is to present new research on the improvement of vocational services in addiction treatment. The volume begins with a crit...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Magura S,Staines GL

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many persons with chronic and severe substance use disorders (SUDs) enter and exit public substance dependence treatment systems with limited benefit, but continue overuse of high-cost health and human services. Less than a third holds jobs, earning income below U.S. federal poverty levels. Long-term integrated substa...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Gold PB,Meisler N,Duross D,Bailey L

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article demonstrates a research strategy and prevention methodology for substance using urban youth that incorporates individual, social, and geographical parameters to systematically understand the ecology of risk and protection for urban youth. The primary goal of this study was to describe and analyze substanc...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Mason M,Cheung I,Walker L

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dearth of longitudinal research has been observed regarding the measurement of the behavioral process of adolescent smoking initiation. The present study operationalizes the leading model on the process of smoking initiation, including two stages of nonpersistent smoking behavior that were previously unlabelled. An ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Kremers SP,Mudde AN,de Vries H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Participation in 12-step groups (12SG) during and after formal treatment has been associated with positive outcome among substance users. However, the effectiveness of 12SG may be limited by high attrition rates and by low participation, areas on which there has been little research. Clinicians play an important role ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Laudet AB

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this article is to present a theoretical model of how to undertake evaluations of prevention programs directed at adolescents. Based on the results from metaanalyses of outcome studies of school-based programs, this article concludes that interactive programs tend to be more effective than not only those ma...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Lilja J,Wilhelmsen BU,Larsson S,Hamilton D

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article discusses the use and distribution of heroin in New York City, both historically and especially currently. Data on the current situation derive in large measure from the Heroin Project, a recently completed five-year ethnographic study of heroin in New York City funded by the National Institute on Drug Ab...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Spunt B

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many jail inmates have a history of substance use and "abuse"; few, however, receive comprehensive treatment for substance use disorders while in jail. The authors offer a longitudinal reanalysis of data from five jail-based substance user treatment programs. Survival analysis was used to identify client characteristi...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Krebs CP,Brady T,Laird G

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescents frequently state health as a broad-ranging reason for wanting to quit smoking. Much less is known regarding performance-related reasons. We hypothesized that more male than female smokers want to quit for performance-related reasons (e.g., to improve athletic performance). As part of a telephone screen to ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Aung AT,Hickman NJ 3rd,Moolchan ET

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data collected from a 1999 nationwide survey of 700 incarcerated drug users in Taiwan, this article compares gender differences with respect to childhood experiences, family characteristics, drug use patterns, and criminal histories. The results from both bivariate and logistic regression analyses document some ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Deng F,Vaughn MS,Lee LJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little research has been conducted on the drug use of those who sleep rough (on the streets) in the United Kingdom (UK). During 2000, to fill in the gaps in the knowledge base, researchers at the National Addiction Centre, London, carried out a community survey using a structured questionnaire amongst 389 homeless peo...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Fountain J,Howes S,Strang J

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study examined the effects of homelessness on access to public entitlements (Medicaid and food stamp programs) in a soup kitchen population. Data were collected between 1997 and 1999 from a sample of 343 adults at two soup kitchen sites in New York City. Five hypotheses, focusing on the effects of housing status (...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Nwakeze PC,Magura S,Rosenblum A,Joseph H

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated whether a history of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) or current post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was associated with alcohol-related expectancies and recalled effects of drinking reported by women in substance user treatment. The results indicate that CSA status was not associated with...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Simpson TL

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While marijuana and cocaine are the two most prevalent drugs used among arrestee populations, benzodiazepine use has surpassed that of opiates in several jurisdictions across the United States. Despite this proliferation, few scholarly works have focused on benzodiazepine use among individuals under criminal justice s...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Yacoubian GS Jr

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three large U.S. epidemiological surveys researching the prevalence of comorbid psychiatric illness and "substance abuse disorders" are reviewed: the Epidemiological Catchment Area Study, (N=20,219); the National Comorbidity Survey (N=8098), and the National Longitudinal Alcohol Epidemiological Survey (N=42,862). Find...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： de Lima MS,Lorea CF,Carpena MP

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents alternative models for reducing alcohol-involved problems at the local level and a review of research evidence about effectiveness. A computer simulation model and results from a community trial in the United States is used to illustrate and demonstrate possibilities. ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Holder HD

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Drug abuse" provides many unique challenges to the research community. Some of these involve fundamental epidemiologic issues, such as measuring the extent of the problem, identifying and assessing changes in patterns and trends, detecting emerging "drugs of abuse", characterizing vulnerable populations and determini...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Kozel NJ,Robertson EB,Falkowski CL

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study confirms a strong link between childhood abuse history and substance misuse based upon data obtained from an ethnically diverse (largely Alaska Native) sample of 192 pregnant women in substance misuse treatment in the mid-1990s. Nearly three-quarters of the women reported childhood victimization. Compared t...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Brems C,Namyniuk L

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first drug treatment court began in Miami, Florida in 1989, in direct response to the backlog of court cases for drug possession and trafficking. By mid-2001, there were 700 operational drug treatment courts and 400 more in the planning stages in the United States. In addition to providing an overview of the growt...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Harrison LD,Scarpitti FR

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A defining feature of the drug treatment court movement is the judicial adoption of the disease model for explaining drug using behavior; an interpretive paradigm that historically has not played a defining role in the adjudication of drug offenders. In drug treatment courts, however, the disease model finds a very ce...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Nolan JL Jr

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00