Most Recent Articles from American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse

• Does diagnosis matter? Differential effects of 12-step participation and social networks on abstinence 

  Previous studies that have examined the effects of specific aspects of 12-step participation and social network composition on abstinence have...

  11/01/05 by Jane Witbrodt · More from publication

• Gender-specific computer-based intervention for preventing drug abuse among girls 

  This study developed and tested a gender-specific intervention for preventing substance abuse among adolescent girls. Delivered on CD-ROM by...

  11/01/05 by Steven Schinke · More from publication

• Cognitive performance by humans during a smoked cocaine binge-abstinence cycle 

  Five cocaine-dependent individuals completed a 22-day inpatient study of sleep and cognition. Following 3 days of drug-free baseline, participants...

  11/01/05 by Edward F. Pace-Schott · More from publication

• Social contextual factors associated with entry into opiate agonist treatment among injection drug users 

  We tested hypotheses that social living arrangement and drug use in one's network are independently associated with entry into opiate agonist...

  11/01/05 by Jacqueline J. Lloyd · More from publication

• Federal Prison Residential Drug Treatment Reduces Substance Use And Arrests After Release - .Statistical Data Included - ) 

  Objective: The effectiveness of federal prison-based residential drug and alcohol treatment programs was evaluated using event history procedures...

  05/01/01 by Bernadette Pelissier · More from publication

• The First Week After Drug Treatment: The Influence Of Treatment On Drug Use Among Women Offenders - Statistical Data Included 

  Over the last decade, there has been a dramatic rise in the number of women arrested for drug offenses, and many have serious drug abuse problems....

  05/01/01 by Shiela M. Strauss · More from publication

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