abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:In recent years, quality of life (QoL) assessments have proved useful for evaluating and comparing drug treatment programs. To compare QoL of patients maintained on methadone versus slow-release morphine, a prospective, randomized, double-blind, double-dummy, cross-over study was conducted. METHODS:Ove...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Winklbaur B,Jagsch R,Ebner N,Thau K,Fischer G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) has been shown to dramatically reduce illicit opioid use and criminal activity among injection drug users (IDU). However, questions remain concerning the effect of MMT in reducing rates of incarceration among IDU. We therefore sought to investigate the long-term effect o...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Werb D,Kerr T,Marsh D,Li K,Montaner J,Wood E

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the UK, few doctors prescribe diamorphine for the treatment of opiate dependence to a small number of patients. A retrospective case note review of patients receiving diamorphine in 2000 was conducted in the UK to determine how and why these patients came to receive a prescription for diamorphine. Patient eligibili...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Metrebian N,Mott J,Carnwath Z,Carnwath T,Stimson GV,Sell L

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To describe and assess trends in the use of hallucinogens and other adjunct drugs over a 5-year period. DESIGN:Repeated-measures cross-sectional survey. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS:Annual magazine-based survey targeting people who use drugs in dance contexts. MEASUREMENTS:Lifetime use prevalence (ever used); age o...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： McCambridge J,Winstock A,Hunt N,Mitcheson L

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Spain, detoxification in general hospitals plays an important role in the medical care of patients. We aim to provide clinicians with information on the prevalence and correlates of psychiatric co-morbidity in drug abusers in detoxification. A sample of 115 substance-abuse inpatients (mean age 31.9 +/- 6.4 years) i...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Nocon A,Bergé D,Astals M,Martín-Santos R,Torrens M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a long-recognized association between alcohol consumption and aggressive behavior. This study was designed to examine aggression in a group of socially well-adapted recovered alcoholics (RA). The question addressed was whether the treatment, together with long-term abstinence from alcohol, could reduce aggres...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Ziherl S,Cebasek Travnik Z,Kores Plesnicar B,Tomori M,Zalar B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the change of psychological distress measured by the symptom checklist in alcohol dependent inpatients during treatment and at follow-up. In addition, psychological distress as a predictive variable for abstinence or relapse during a 1-year follow-up was investigated. In a sample ...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Sander W,Jux M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This longitudinal study of 600 families concentrates on the influence of parental anti-smoking socialization by examining both (a) the effects of eight indicators of anti-smoking socialization on adolescent smoking and (b) the influence of parental smoking on the effectiveness of their anti-smoking socialization. Robu...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： den Exter Blokland EA,Hale WW 3rd,Meeus W,Engels RC

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The study presents data about age of onset of alcohol, cigarette and cannabis use and investigates the association between age of onset and later drug use patterns. METHODS:Using a sample from a cross-sectional multi-site study, personal interviews were conducted with 3,503 individuals aged 12-49 years. Las...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Baumeister SE,Tossmann P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate drug use among secondary schoolchildren aged 14-18 years in the city of Szeged in Hungary in order to observe and describe drug use, smoking and alcohol intake and to find risk factors for these behaviours. METHODS:The questionnaire was concerned with recreational drug use, smoking and drinkin...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Nyári TA,Herédi K,Parker L

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of alcohol-dependent patients was primarily focused on inpatient settings in the past decades. The efficacy of these treatment programs has been evaluated in several studies and proven to be sufficient. However, with regard to the increasing costs in public healthcare systems, questions about alternative tre...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Bottlender M,Soyka M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Europe, adolescent substance misuse increased during the 1990s. Ireland has among the highest rates of substance misuse among schoolchildren in Europe. We sought to describe the socio-demographic and drug misuse profile of children presenting to addiction treatment services in Dublin during the 1990s. Of the 9,874 ...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Smyth BP,O'Brien M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Behavioral problems in adolescence have been shown to be associated with the presence of a positive family history of alcoholism (FH+), obstetric complications (OCs), and negative parenting practices. METHOD:This study tested the relation of these factors to aggression/delinquency and attention problems in ...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Barnow S,Lucht M,Hamm A,John U,Freyberger HJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of the study was to examine the practicability and implementation efficacy of an alcohol outpatient detoxification model and the concomitant 'motivational' psychotherapeutic approach. METHOD:This was an open prospective study to examine the implementation efficacy, practicability and medical safety ...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Soyka M,Horak M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Buprenorphine has already been registered in 27 European countries for maintenance therapy in opioid-dependent patients. In our office-based prescription study we applied sublingual buprenorphine, initiating the treatment at the addiction clinic with subsequent treatment at the offices of general practitio...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Ortner R,Jagsch R,Schindler SD,Primorac A,Fischer G,General Practitioner Addiction Team.

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The associations between maternal smoking and nicotine dependence and patterns of smoking and nicotine dependence in offspring were examined in a large community-based sample of adolescents. Data were derived from baseline and 4-year follow-up assessments of 938 respondents aged 14-17 years at the outset of the Early ...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Lieb R,Schreier A,Pfister H,Wittchen HU

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is increasing interest in naltrexone, an opiate antagonist, in the treatment of opiate addicts. The effects of naltrexone are often compromised by a lack of compliance and drop-out. The effects of this compound are probably more favorable when combined with a psychosocial intervention such as the Commu...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Roozen HG,Kerkhof AJ,van den Brink W

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the use of some subscales of the psychiatric symptom checklist SCL-90-R in predicting relapse within a 1-year follow-up period after a combined detoxification- and abstinence-focused day patient psychotherapy program in 20 men and 13 women with alcohol dependence. Scores of the SCL-90-R subscales interperson...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Lucht M,Jahn U,Barnow S,Freyberger HJ

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess smoking habit and awareness of smoking as a potential cause of disease among relatives of patients with serious smoking-related disorders. DESIGN AND SETTING:A survey using a face-to-face interview-assisted questionnaire at the Ege University Hospital between October 1998 and March 1999. SUBJECTS:...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Goksel T,Ozol D,Bayindir U,Guzelant A

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two forms of institutionalized pressure to treatment can be distinguished in Switzerland: civil commitment and court referral. In court referral, the referred patient has the right to refuse treatment. OBJECTIVES:To compare court referrals for inpatient treatment to voluntary therapy. METHODS:Comparison of...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Grichting E,Uchtenhagen A,Rehm J

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, the effectiveness of the treatment program developed by Proyecto Hombre ('Project Mankind') in Asturias, Spain, is evaluated. In a long-term follow-up (range from 73 days to 8 years) with a sample of 249 subjects, the results obtained by subjects completing the treatment (194) were compared with pre-tre...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Fernández-Hermida JR,Secades-Villa R,Fernández-Ludeña JJ,Marina-González PA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Evaluation of the Addiction Severity Index (ASI) as a screen for identifying sexual and physical assault histories. METHOD:The sensitivity and specificity of the ASI assault items were examined in 146 alcoholic patients with the assault questions of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview posttrauma...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Langeland W,van den Brink W,Draijer N,Hartgers C

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol and illicit drug use has a significant impact on global health. Alcohol consumption is increasing worldwide, particularly in developing countries and countries in transition, leading to an increasing number of health and social problems, both acute and chronic. Illicit drug use is also increasing, particularly...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Monteiro MG

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact on the motivation to treatment of a qualified alcohol withdrawal programme was evaluated in a pre/post setting. Over a period of 2 years we compared the results of replacing the last week of an inpatient setting by day-clinic treatment. In the first year, 202 patients were treated in a 3-week inpatient sett...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Reymann G,Danziger HJ

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of the community-based Early Developmental Stages of Psychopathology (EDSP) Study are described along with a detailed account of the overall design, special design features, sample characteristics and instruments used. The EDSP employed a prospective-longitudinal design to study substance use and other ...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Lieb R,Isensee B,von Sydow K,Wittchen HU

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a cross-sectional multicentre study, we compared the characteristics of heroin chasers and heroin injectors. Subjects were 162 primarily opioid-dependent volunteers for whom either chasing (n = 85) or injecting (n = 77) was the principal route of heroin administration. Each subject was rated by means of the Swiss v...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Stohler R,Dürsteler-Mac Farland KM,Gramespacher C,Petitjean S,Battegay R,Ladewig D

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of studies point at platelet monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity being reduced in alcoholics with a family history of drinking, this being a possible vulnerability marker for alcoholism. To test this hypothesis, we examined a group of recently detoxified alcoholics with high (n = 25) and low genetic loading for ...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Soyka M,Bondy B,Benda E,Preuss U,Hegerl U,Möller H

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the article the growing interest of studies on treatment systems rather than specific treatment modalities is taken as a starting point for a discussion and outlook on how the research agenda of drug treatment research will develop in the near future. The relative absence of research that provides substantial guida...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Bergmark A

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary source for evaluating treatment outcome in alcoholism is usually verbal self-report. Because the validity of self-report is often doubted, more objective markers for treatment outcome are needed. In this study, we compared self-report data from 238 male alcohol-dependent patients participating in a combine...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Mundle G,Ackermann K,Günthner A,Munkes J,Mann K

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data were collected on 1,074 opiate detoxifications conducted with lofexidine, from 40 drug dependency units in the United Kingdom. 671 patients (62.5%) attempted a detoxification in the community, with the remainder attempting an inpatient detoxification. Patients completing the detoxification started on a mean dose ...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Akhurst JS

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The programme of prescribing amphetamines and opiates to drug users in Stockholm carried out from 1965 to 1967 has frequently been referred to in the European drug policy debate. In this article, originally presented at the Conference on Drug Use and Drug Policy in Amsterdam in September 1996, the programme is describ...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Lenke L,Olsson B

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of intoxication and criminal responsibility has been a problem field for legal theory and practice for quite some time. While it has been argued in certain contexts that intoxication reduces or denies criminal responsibility, elsewhere it has been reasoned that intoxicated offenders should be held as (...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Fischer B,Rehm J

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:This report presents findings of a community survey of 3,021 adolescents and young adults aged 14-24 years in Munich, Germany, carried out to determine the prevalence of use and abuse of and dependence on ecstasy, amphetamines and hallucinogens. The response rate was 71%. RESULTS:(1) In 1995, 4% of the male...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Schuster P,Lieb R,Lamertz C,Wittchen HU

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In France, during the 1990s, there have been some rapid developments in the treatment of opioid addiction with the introduction of legal substitution agents. Originally, some patients were treated with morphine sulfate, but this was superseded by high dose buprenorphine (Subutex(R)) and methadone. This resulted in tho...

journal_title：European addiction research

authors： Bouchez J,Beauverie P,Touzeau D

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00