Drug abuse : its natural history and clinical treatment /
"The success or failure of drug treatment programs have long been evaluated by assessing the clients' progress while in treatment and their status upon completion. This approach does not provide a complete assessment or an adequate picture of treatment outcomes over time. A comprehensive e...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick :
Transaction Publishers,
[2011]
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| Summary: | "The success or failure of drug treatment programs have long been evaluated by assessing the clients' progress while in treatment and their status upon completion. This approach does not provide a complete assessment or an adequate picture of treatment outcomes over time. A comprehensive evaluation of the success or failure of treatment should also include client status in the years following treatment for a fair assessment of the long-term efficacy of any drug-treatment program. What happens to former clients who left treatment? What influence did the treatment have on their lives? These are the questions that Marvin R. Burt seeks to answer with the follow-up studies included in this book. By selecting samples of former clients treated by two of the largest drug treatment agencies in the U.S. and control groups, Burt compares client behavior in terms of drug abuse, criminal activity, and socioeconomic productivity before, immediately following, and well after treatment." |
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| Item Description: | Originally published as: Drug abuse, its natural history and the effectiveness of current treatments / by Marvin R. Burt, with Sharon Pines and Thomas J. Glynn. Cambridge, Mass. : Schenkman Pub. Co., c1979 |
| Physical Description: | x, 351 p. : ill. ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1412818265 9781412818261 |