Consider these facts: An often-debilitating brain disease afflicts millions of Americans. This disease is one of the country's greatest killers. Its victims frequently suffer from depression and many physical ailments, and often become unable to work effectively. The disease costs the U.S. economy hundreds of billions of dollars annually-more than cancer, more than heart disease.' Fortunately, ...

In 2001, the American Society of Addiction Medicine Patient Placement Criteria, Second Edition, Revised (ASAM PPC-2R) (American Society of Addiction Medicine, 2001) introduced the concepts of dual diagnosis capability (DDC) and dual diagnosis enhanced (DDE) addiction programs into the national lexicon. The original definitions of DDC and DDE addiction programs were relatively brief. DDC program...

OBJECTIVES Publicly funded addiction treatment organizations have been slow to adopt pharmacotherapies. Few studies have examined the organizational factors associated with adoption of different types of medication in this treatment sector. This study identifies organization-level facilitators and barriers to the use of medications in publicly funded addiction treatment organizations. METHODS...

The College in New Brunswick was reluctant to arbitrarily select one approach over the other, even granting the similarities. It was felt appropriate to allow physicians to adopt one of these established approaches to guide them. They could then modify their approach as they gain experience. That said, for the sake of some consistency, the College can point to the most recent guidelines from No...

background: understanding the motives and reasons for drug treatment is very important. this study aimed to develop a psychometric evaluation to determine the reasons for addiction treatment among outpatients referred to addiction treatment clinics. methods: this cross-sectional validation study included five phases (i) item generation (ii) making an initial questionnaire (iii) content validity...

BACKGROUND Vancouver, Canada has a pilot supervised injecting facility (SIF), where individuals can inject pre-obtained drugs under the supervision of medical staff. There has been concern that the program may facilitate ongoing drug use and delay entry into addiction treatment. METHODS We used Cox regression to examine factors associated with the time to the cessation of injecting, for a min...