Contemporary Drug Problems articles from March 1995

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from March 1995

The Action Plan: Ontario's attempt to make systematic research-based change to the provincial treatment system.(The Emergence of Assessment/Referral Programs in Ontario: An Experiment in Changing Treatment Systems Through Community Development)(Editorial)
March 22, 1995... During the 1970s the Addiction Research Foundation (ARF) began a process of changing its regional offices' role of local treatment providers in a province of over six million people (approximately 413,000 square miles) to the role of local...

The core-shell model: an institutional experiment.(The Emergence of Assessment/Referral Programs in Ontario: An Experiment in Changing Treatment Systems Through Community Development)
March 22, 1995... The system of assessment/referral centers in Ontario had its theoretical origins in the core-shell model developed at the Addiction Research Foundation (ARF) in the mid 1970s.(1) This paper describes the model and its key conceptual...

Ontario's treatment task force (1978): a community systems perspective on treatment.(The Emergence of Assessment/Referral Programs in Ontario: An Experiment in Changing Treatment Systems Through Community Development)
March 22, 1995... Ontario's current system of assessment/referral (A/R) centers developed mainly over the decade of the 1980s, stimulated largely by the Addiction Research Foundation's (ARF's) Task Force on Treatment Services for Alcoholics (Marshman, 1978). The...

The development of assessment and referral services in Ontario: the role of ARF community programs staff. (Addiction Research Foundation)(The Emergence of Assessment/Referral Programs in Ontario: An Experiment in Changing Treatment Systems Through Community Development)
March 22, 1995... As described in another paper in this issue (Marshman, pp. 27-41), the Addiction Research Foundation (ARF) has a unique role in Ontario because of its provincial rather than local mandate. Prior to the 1970s, ARF's provincewide activities in the...

Treatment entry and engagement: a study of the process at assessment/referral centers.(The Emergence of Assessment/Referral Programs in Ontario: An Experiment in Changing Treatment Systems Through Community Development)
March 22, 1995... Although a recent review of addictions treatment research has found that even the most effective approaches are only modestly successful (Miller & Hester, 1986), treatment research generally has focused and continues to focus on narrow...

The recent evolution of assessment/referral centers and current directions.(The Emergence of Assessment/Referral Programs in Ontario: An Experiment in Changing Treatment Systems Through Community Development)
March 22, 1995... In the late 1970s and early 1980s, assessment/referral (A/R) centers were identified as a component of a comprehensive continuum of addiction services for the province of Ontario. As well, the Ontario Provincial Ministry of Health started to...

Ontario treatment system research 1979-1993: what have we learned about assessment and referral services in terms of the original expectations?(The Emergence of Assessment/Referral Programs in Ontario: An Experiment in Changing Treatment Systems Through Community Development)
March 22, 1995... In North America, and in Canada specifically, a large specialized treatment capacity for substance abuse has evolved over the last 30-40 years (Rush & Ogborne, 1992; Weisner, 1986). Paralleling this increase in the number and capacity of...

A systems approach without a system design: a commentary on six papers on the Ontario experience.(The Emergence of Assessment/Referral Programs in Ontario: An Experiment in Changing Treatment Systems Through Community Development)
March 22, 1995... The six papers of the Symposium on the Ontario Experience represent a valuable contribution to the literature on health services research generally and on treatment systems in particular. What has happened in Ontario is highly instructive. It...

The core-shell model: implications for treatment assessment and community work.(The Emergence of Assessment/Referral Programs in Ontario: An Experiment in Changing Treatment Systems Through Community Development)
March 22, 1995... The past 20 years have witnessed an intensive, well-thought-out effort of the Addiction Research Foundation to integrate assessment and referral centers with the larger system of substance abuse treatment in Ontario. This set of papers chronicles...

The Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus: A Guide to Concepts and Terminology in Substance Abuse and Addiction.
March 22, 1995... The Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus: A Guide to Concepts and Terminology in Substance Abuse and Addiction, developed jointly by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (Washington, DC:...

Ten Years of Cocaine: A Follow-Up Study of 64 Cocaine Users in Amsterdam.
March 22, 1995... Ten Years of Cocaine: A Follow-up Study of 64 Cocaine Users in Amsterdam, by Peter Cohen and Arjan Sas (Amsterdam, the Netherlands: University of Amsterdam, 1993) (Vakgroep Sociale Geographie, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, 1018 VZ Amsterdam), 128...