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The effectiveness of alternative planned durations of residential drug abuse treatment.

Author(s) -

Jane McCusker,

Maureen Vickers-Lahti,

Anne Stoddard,

Rita Hindin,

Carol Bigelow,

Martha Zorn,

Frances Garfield,

Ray L. Frost,

Charles J. Love,

Benjamin F. Lewis

Publication year - 1995

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.85.10.1426

Subject(s) - medicine , psychosocial , duration (music) , substance abuse , randomized controlled trial , therapeutic community , drug , emergency medicine , psychiatry , art , literature

Randomized controlled trials were conducted at two residential drug abuse treatment facilities to compare programs that differed in planned duration. One trial compared a 6-month and a 12-month therapeutic community program (n = 184), and the second compared a 3-month and a 6-month relapse prevention program (n = 444). Retention rates over comparable time periods differed minimally by planned treatment duration, and the longer programs had lower completion rates. There was no effect in either trial of planned treatment duration on changes in psychosocial variables between admission and exit or on rates or patterns of drug use at follow-up between 2 and 6 months after exit.

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