Aims. To provide empirically based evaluation data regarding the efficacy of
psychopharmacological interventions in opiate substance abuse, the present study …

OBJECTIVE: To review and synthesize the recent scientific literature on adolescent
substance abuse, covering natural history, epidemiology, etiology, comorbidity, assessment …

Research Methods in Education introduces research methods as an integrated set of
techniques for investigating questions about the educational world. This lively, innovative …

Importance To date, extended-release naltrexone hydrochloride has not previously been
compared directly with opioid medication treatment (OMT), currently the most commonly …

Abstract The Addiction Severity Index (ASI) is 12 years old and has been revised to include
a new section on family history of alcohol, drug, and psychiatric problems. New items were …

Fifty-six heroin addicts and 60 age-matched controls were offered choices between
monetary rewards ($11–$80) available immediately and larger rewards ($25–$85) available …

Aim The concurrent, construct and discriminative validity of the World Health Organization's
Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) were examined in a …

Objective Studies in nonhuman primates suggest that high levels of cortisol associated with
stress have neurotoxic effects on the hippocampus, a brain structure involved in memory …

Objective. To provide clinicians with a brief screening tool to predict accurately which
individuals may develop aberrant behaviors when prescribed opioids for chronic pain …

We have previously reported smaller hippocampal volume and deficits in short-term memory
in patients with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) relative to comparison …