Substance Use Disorder
2011
An Analysis of Applicants Presenting to a Medical Marijuana Specialty Practice in California — 2011
This study provides descriptive information about 1,655 applicants in California who sought a physician's recommendation for medical marijuana, the conditions for which they sought treatment, and the diagnoses made by the physicians.
Basing Drug Scheduling Decisions on Scientific Ranking of Harmfulness: False Promise from False Premises — 2011
Multiple dimensions of harm need to be displayed to inform human judgments of what drugs should be scheduled; recent efforts ignores drug interactions and mix aggregate and individual harms inappropriately.
Behavioral Health and Social Normative Influence: Correlates of Concurrent Sexual Partnering Among Heterosexually-Active Homeless Men — 2011
Sexual concurrency poses significant HIV/STI transmission risk.
Behavioral Health Insurance Parity: Does Oregon's Experience Presage the National Experience with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act? — 2011
Analysis of Oregon's state parity law suggests that behavioral health insurance parity rules restricting how plans manage mental health and substance abuse services can improve insurance protections without substantial increases in total costs.
Bringing Perspective to Illicit Markets: Estimating the Size of the U.S. Marijuana Market — 2011
The authors review two general approaches to drug market estimation--supply-side and demand-side--before turning to a more specific analysis of studies that measure the size of the U.S. marijuana market.
Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT): A Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression in Clients with Co-Occurring Alcohol and Drug Use Problems — Group Leader's Manual — 2011
This is the group leader's manual for BRIGHT, a manualized group cognitive behavioral therapy program for depression in individuals with co-occurring alcohol and drug use problems.
Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT): A Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression in Clients with Co-Occurring Alcohol and Drug Use Problems — Group Member's Workbook — 2011
This is the group member's workbook for BRIGHT, a manualized group cognitive behavioral therapy program for depression in individuals with co-occurring alcohol and drug use problems.
Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT-2): An Integrated Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Co-Occurring Depression and Alcohol and Drug Use Problems — Group Leader's Manual — 2011
This is the group leader's manual for BRIGHT-2, a manualized group cognitive behavioral therapy program for co-occurring depression and alcohol and drug use problems.
Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT-2): An Integrated Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Co-Occurring Depression and Alcohol and Drug Use Problems — Group Member's Workbook — 2011
This is the group member's workbook for BRIGHT-2, a manualized group cognitive behavioral therapy program for co-occurring depression and alcohol and drug use problems.
Care for Veterans with Mental and Substance Use Disorders: Good Performance, but Room to Improve on Many Measures — 2011
The 15 % of veterans with mental health illness accounted for about one-third of total VA costs, mostly for non-mental health conditions. VA quality of care was generally better than care in private plans, but quality varied across VA regions.
The Cost and Quality of VA Mental Health Services — 2011
The quality of mental health care delivered by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is generally as good or better than care delivered by private health plans, although it falls short of the high standards set in VA guidelines.
Design considerations for legalizing cannabis: Lessons inspired by analysis of California's Proposition 19 — 2011
How legalizing marijuana would affect consumption and tax revenues will depend on many design choices including tax level, incentives for a continued black market, whether advertising is restricted, and how the regulatory system is designed and adjusted.
Does the Response to Alcohol Taxes Differ Across Racial/ethnic Groups? Some Evidence from 1984-2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System — 2011
This study examines how the effect of alcohol excise taxes on the demand for alcohol varies across different racial and ethnic groups.
Economic Impact of Mexico City's Smoke-Free Law — 2011
There is no statistically significant evidence that the Mexico City smoke-free law had a negative impact on restaurants' income, employees' wages and levels of employment.
The Effectiveness of Community-Based Delivery of an Evidence-Based Treatment for Adolescent Substance Use — 2011
This study evaluates the effectiveness of motivational enhancement therapy/cognitive behavioral therapy–5 (MET/CBT-5) when delivered in community practice settings relative to standard community-based adolescent treatment.
An Effectiveness Trial of Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Patients with Persistent Depressive Symptoms in Substance Abuse Treatment — 2011
Providing group cognitive behavioral therapy for depression to clients with persistent depressive symptoms receiving residential substance abuse treatment is associated with improved depression and substance use outcomes.
The Effects of Arkansas Master Settlement Spending on Disparities in Smoking — 2011
We assessed the effect of Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) spending on smoking disparities in Arkansas, which distinguished itself from other states by investing all of its MSA funds in health-related programs.
A Fidelity Coding Guide for a Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression — 2011
Description of fidelity rating tools for the Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT) and BRIGHT-2 interventions for depression and substance abuse, interrater reliability of measures, and a training plan for coders.
Group Alcohol and Drug Treatment — 2011
Group treatment for teen alcohol and drug disorders can be enhanced by motivational interviewing, a technique that may be ideally suited to addressing barriers to treating teens in groups because it is inherently collaborative, focusing on achievable approaches for change.
Growing Internet Use May Help Explain the Rise in Prescription Drug Abuse in the United States — 2011
Online prescription drug sales require better oversight: For every 10 percent increase in high-speed Internet use at the state level, associated treatment facility admissions for prescription drug abuse rose by 1 percent.
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