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Modeling treatment process and outcomes
Author(s) -
Simpson D. Dwayne
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0965-2140
DOI - 10.1046/j.1360-0443.2001.9622073.x
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , process (computing) , psychology , information retrieval , library science , programming language
We recently concluded the third decade of large-scale public funding for community-based drug abuse treatment in the United States. Over these years, basic and applied research in this arena has been carried out and reported at an unprecedented rate, based in part on the requirements of federal agencies to evaluate the effectiveness of our national drug abuse treatment system. Beginning in the early 1970s with the Drug Abuse Reporting Program (DARP), followed by the Treatment Outcome Prospective Study (TOPS) a decade later, and continuing through the 1990s with the Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Studies (DATOS), national evaluations have examined over 65,000 admissions to 272 treatment programs using multimodality and multisite sampling plans that allow the study of treatment in natural settings. These national projects comprise only part of the large body of evidence accumulated over the past 30 years that supports the general effectiveness of drug treatment.1-5