Addiction Treatment in America: After Money or Aftercare?

Addiction Treatment in America: After Money or Aftercare?

There are approximately 14,500 clinics and programs in America that provide treatment for all types of addictive behaviors we call "Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS)". While most of these have good intentions to provide needed help to the victims of RDS, we propose herein that most of their efforts, especially during periods of aftercare, are not based on the existing scientific evidence. We use...

Reentry after addiction treatment: research or retrain?

work document excellent outcomes for all physicians, including anesthesiologists, treated and monitored by PHPs. To summarize each, Pelton and Ikeda reported a 10-yr follow-up of 255 physicians (including 35 anesthesiologists) successfully completing the California Diversion Program with excellent outcomes. They concluded that anesthesiologists had “equal chance of recovery and contradicts the ...

Narcotic Addiction in Britain and America

Drug addiction in the U.S.A., in comparison with this country, remains a major ^ealth problem. Various theories have been postulated over the years to explain this difference, and Dr. Schur, in his book, has endeavoured to compare and contrast the tfect which varying administrative measures have had on the fate of the drug addict. puring a two-year research period in the U.K., he made a thoroug...

Out of touch or on the money: Do the clinical objectives of addiction treatment coincide with economic evaluation results?

Previous economic studies have examined the association between substance abuse treatment and reduced costs to society, but it remains uncertain whether the economic measures used in cost and benefit-cost analyses of treatment programs correspond in direction and magnitude with clinical outcomes. In response to this uncertainty, the present study analyzed a longitudinal data set of addiction tr...

From America: manpower, money, and cookbook medicine.