Treating Drug Abusers Effectively
Published on 19. March 1997
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-1-57718-041-8 (ISBN)
Description
The 11 original articles that comprise this book are the result of a collaboration between researchers and policymakers that was organized by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Milbank Memorial Fund. These articles assess research-based knowledge about effective treatment in order to provide guidance to policymakers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
732 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57718-041-8 (9781577180418)
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Content
Notes on Contributors. Foreword: Samuel L. Milbank and Carl H. Pforzheimer III. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Joel A. Egertson, Daniel M. Fox and Alan I. Leshner. Part I: Research Findings on Drug-Abuse Treatment: 1. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Addiction Treatments: Reasonable Expectations, Appropriate Comparisons: A. Thomas McLellan. 2. Effectiveness of Drug-Abuse Treatment: A Review of Research from Field Settings: D. Dwayne Simpson. 3. Need and Access to Drug-Abuse Treatment: Constance Horgan. 4. Staffing Patterns and Services for the War on Drugs: Barry S. Brown. 5. What We Know and What We Actually Do: Best Practices and Their Prevalence in Substance-Abuse Treatment: Richard H. Price. Part II: Financing Drug-Abuse Treatment: 6. Drug-Abuse Treatment Costs: An Interpretive Essay: Allen C. Goodman, Janet R. Harkin and Eleanor Nishiura. 7. Cost Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Issues in the Evaluation of the Treatment of Illicit Drug Abuse: Jody L. Sindelat and Willard G. Manning, Jr. 8. Some Economics of Performance-Based Contracting for Substance-Abuse Services: Margaret Commons and Thomas G. McGuire. Part III: Special Issues in Drug-Abuse Treatment: 9. The Development of Effective Drug-Abuse Services for Youth: Scott W. Henggeler. 10. Casualties of the Drug War: An Equality-Based Argument for Drug Treatment: David Cole and Barry Littman. 11. Linking Substance-Abuse Treatment and Primary Health Care: Thomas D'Aunno. Index.