The authors examined frequency and patterns of self-help group attendance and active
participation over a 6-month period among 411 patients receiving treatment in the NIDA …

BACKGROUND: Few community-based clinicians have been trained to deliver contingency
management (CM) treatments, and little data exist regarding the efficacy of CM when …

Aims: To identify factors that predict attendance for the start of treatment following
assessment, and factors that predict retention in treatment, at a specialist alcohol treatment …

This research was conducted as part of a long-term project designed to establish innovative
early intervention programs in a public health setting. Problem drinkers were recruited from …

Poor patient adherence remains a serious obstacle to improving the effectiveness of many
drug abuse therapies and the overall quality of care delivered in programs. The present …

Purpose Few studies and no theory-based scales have addressed specific barriers to
substance use disorder (SUD) treatment retention. The current study, building on the Theory …

To investigate the role of treatment modality in relapse prevention treatment, 32 cocaine-
dependent subjects were randomly assigned by cohorts to group-based relapse prevention …

This article presents findings from a quasi‐experimental, nonrandomized group design
study that explored whether trauma‐enhanced substance abuse treatment results in longer …

The Therapeutic Community (TC) model is considered an effective treatment for substance
dependence, particularly for individuals with complex presentations. While a popular …

Objective: Contingency management (CM) reduces drug use, but questions remain
regarding optimal targets and magnitudes of reinforcement. We evaluated the efficacy of CM …