Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Forewords
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Treating adolescent substance abuse: state of the science
- Part I Theoretical, empirical, and methodological foundations for research in adolescent substance abuse treatment
- Part II Practice and policy trends in treatment for adolescent substance abuse
- 6 Epidemiological trends and clinical implications of adolescent substance abuse in Europe
- 7 The Drug Abuse Treatment Outcomes Studies: outcomes with adolescent substance abusers
- 8 Adolescent treatment services: the context of care
- 9 The principles of service organization and practice in England
- 10 Health services with drug-abusing adolescents: the next frontier of research
- Part III Comprehensive assessment and integrative treatment planning with adolescent substance abusers
- Part IV Empirically based interventions for adolescent substance abuse: research and practical implications
- Part V Culturally based treatment development for adolescent substance abusers
- Part VI Building the future
- Index
- References
7 - The Drug Abuse Treatment Outcomes Studies: outcomes with adolescent substance abusers
from Part II - Practice and policy trends in treatment for adolescent substance abuse
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Forewords
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Treating adolescent substance abuse: state of the science
- Part I Theoretical, empirical, and methodological foundations for research in adolescent substance abuse treatment
- Part II Practice and policy trends in treatment for adolescent substance abuse
- 6 Epidemiological trends and clinical implications of adolescent substance abuse in Europe
- 7 The Drug Abuse Treatment Outcomes Studies: outcomes with adolescent substance abusers
- 8 Adolescent treatment services: the context of care
- 9 The principles of service organization and practice in England
- 10 Health services with drug-abusing adolescents: the next frontier of research
- Part III Comprehensive assessment and integrative treatment planning with adolescent substance abusers
- Part IV Empirically based interventions for adolescent substance abuse: research and practical implications
- Part V Culturally based treatment development for adolescent substance abusers
- Part VI Building the future
- Index
- References
Summary
Large-scale studies of drug abuse treatment effectiveness provide benchmarks that can be used to gauge drug abuse treatment services at a given point in time, as well as over time. Such large-scale studies have inherent strengths and weaknesses: they provide a broad view of the nature of treatment services offered in community-based programs, yet, because of their breadth, they do not address the implementation or effectiveness of specific clinical treatment approaches. Consequently, national evaluation studies are best suited to examining global questions about the characteristics of individuals who utilize substance abuse treatment across a broad sample of settings and the outcomes associated with their treatment participation. Findings from these studies can help to advance the field by identifying gaps in existing treatment systems and, by informing the development of both clinical and policy approaches, to improve the quality of treatment provided.
Since the 1970s, three national treatment outcome studies sponsored by the NIDA have been conducted in the USA. The goals of these studies have been to examine the effectiveness of substance abuse treatment, to provide information for policy makers that can be used for developing national treatment plans and policies, and to obtain information that can be used to improve service delivery and clinical practices. In this chapter, we provide a brief review of the first two national treatment outcome studies (the Drug Abuse Reporting Program [DARP] and Treatment Outcome Perspectives Study [TOPS]) and examine in depth the last study (Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Studies for Adolescents [DATOS-A]), which was the first to include a separate sample of adolescents who were treated in adolescent-oriented programs.
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- Adolescent Substance AbuseResearch and Clinical Advances, pp. 148 - 173Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006
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