Two therapeutic communities for substance-abusing women and their children.
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How does one design and implement a randomized clinical trial in a therapeutic community (TC)? This was the question confronting two Perinatal-20 Treatment Research Demonstration Program grantees, Amity, Inc., in Tucson, Arizona, and Operation PAR, Inc., in St. Petersburg, Florida. This chapter describes the issues encountered by these two agencies in developing clinical laboratories for research demonstration programs in two TCs for substance abusers. Some of the problems were readily worked through, but several remain.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- NIDA research monograph
دوره 166 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1996