...Andrew Jones; Karen P. Hayhurst; Tim Millar; Matthias Pierce; Graham Dunn; Michael Donmall Background/Aims: The English drug treatment population doubled in size between 1998 and 2008, increasingly characterised by crack cocaine use and criminal justice system (CJS) referral. We assessed short-term...

... from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Program evaluation Therapeutic community Drug treatment Drug addiction Special Topic Section Evaluation of Treatment Eur Addict Res 2002;8:22 29 Effectiveness of a Therapeutic Community Treatment...

...Duncan Stewart; Michael Gossop; John Marsden; John Strang This paper describes treatment practices in 54 drug treatment programmes taking part in the National Treatment Outcome Research Study (NTORS). Programmes were representative of the 4 main treatment modalities in the UK: in-patient...

...Emilis Subata Illegal drug use was already a problem in the Baltic countries in the Soviet era, when the Iron Curtain was still in place. At independence the Baltic countries inherited drug treatment system, operated mainly by psychiatrists and based on inpatient system. As the Soviet treatment...

...Aarne Kinnunen; Margareta Nilson The article describes the recent developments in drug treatment systems in several European countries. The article is based on the up-dated papers delivered in the closing meeting of the ISDRUTS-project (International Study of the Drug Treatment Systems) in Lisbon...

..., Section of Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Maastricht, The Netherlands; dIstituto Europeo di Formazione e Consulenza Sistemica, Roma, Italy Key Words Therapeutic community W Drug treatment W Drug addiction W Relapse prevention Abstract An overview of the state of the art of research...