Coercion has been acknowledged as a common factor affecting clients' decisions to enter
addictions treatment. Coercion may be present in many forms, some of which are formal …

Little is known about the extent to which admission to alcohol and other drug treatment
programs is perceived as a coercive imposition. This is because coercion is typically inferred …

Aims: To examine potential differences in subjective perceptions of coercion between
substance abuse professionals and clients in how they view events that trigger entry to …

This paper reports preliminary data derived from a standardized interview scoring procedure
for detecting and characterizing coercive and noncoercive pressures to enter substance …

Research on coercion in addiction treatment typically investigates objective sources of
social pressure among legally mandated clients. Little research has examined the impact of …

The use of coercion to induce entry to addiction treatment is controversial and a large body
of research has accumulated considering ethical issues, benefits, and repercussions …

The present study involved 3 phases that led to the development and initial validation of the
Perceived Coercion Questionnaire (PCQ), a scale that researchers use to measure …

Purpose: Continued illicit drug use by opioid-dependent patients maintained on methadone
is a serious problem, undermining the goal of methadone maintenance treatment and …

The present study investigated whether psychological and/or physiological measures of
stress would impede induction onto methadone maintenance and predict early (< 6 months) …

Coercion in substance abuse treatment is commonly viewed as being synonymous with a
legal mandate to receive services. Clients who are involuntarily committed to treatment or …