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Treatability of Addicts: Hypothesis and Results *
Author(s) -
Edelstein E. L.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
british journal of addiction to alcohol and other drugs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0007-0890
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1976.tb00092.x
Subject(s) - drug addict , addiction , outcome (game theory) , psychology , medicine , psychiatry , mathematics , mathematical economics
Summary Treatability of addicts was categorized and split into ten predictive factors. Drug addicts seeking help in our special clinic, were screened by the method, described. When those with high scores were taken into therapy, the success rate was unusually high for the usually accepted treatment – outcome ratio for drug addicts.