Contemporary Drug Problems articles from March 2003

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from March 2003

Editors' introduction.(Editorial)
March 22, 2003... The set of 16 papers in this double issue of Contemporary Drug Problems reports principal findings from the "SSI Study." This was a two-year longitudinal inquiry into the lives of almost 1,800 people who in 1996 received Supplemental Security...

Drink, drugs and disability: an introduction to the controversy.(Social Security Administration's drug addiction and alcoholism program)
March 22, 2003... It is highly unlikely that when Congress passed the SSI program in 1972... members realized they would be writing a guaranteed annual income and medical care [program] for addicts. Rep. Rick Santorum, February 10, 1994 I think...

The methodology of the multi-site study of the termination of Supplemental Security Income benefits for drug addicts and alcoholics.
March 22, 2003... In March 1996 federal legislation (P.L. 104-121) rescinded Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) benefits to recipients with disabling impairments "materially related" to drug addiction or alcoholism....

An assessment of the representativeness of the SSI DA&A study panels.(Supplemental Security Income, drug addiction & alcoholism )
March 22, 2003... Two main sources of non-sampling error threaten the external validity of the SSI Study: incomplete sample frames and nonparticipation of selected subjects. All study sites selected random samples of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) drug...

Rationale and procedures for weighting the SSI Study data.(Supplemental Security Income drug addiction & alcoholism study)
March 22, 2003... In this paper we describe the rationale for and the procedures used to develop a set of weights for the SSI Study panel data. The weights address two issues for these data: varying sampling rates across study sites, and bias due to incomplete...

Decisions to appeal, decisions to approve: requalification for SSI by former DA&A beneficiaries.(Supplemental Security Income, drug addiction & alcoholism )
March 22, 2003... When Congress voted to terminate the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Drug Addiction and Alcoholism (DA&A) program, it sought to disqualify only a relatively small number of DA&A beneficiaries whose impairments would be remediable if they...

Effects of losing SSI benefits on standard drug and alcohol outcome measures.(Supplemental Security Income)
March 22, 2003... Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a federal welfare program authorized in 1972 to ensure financial support for elderly, blind, and disabled persons with limited work histories and resources. From the start of SSI in 1974, the Social...

The bottom line: employment and barriers to work among former SSI DA&A beneficiaries.(Supplemental Security Income, drug addiction & alcoholism)
March 22, 2003... January 1997 marked the end of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program for about 167,000 people with disabilities "materially related" to drug addiction and alcoholism. (1) These "DA&A" beneficiaries (as they were called) did not...

Homelessness, hunger and material hardship among those who lost SSI.(Supplemental Security Income Drug Addiction and Alcoholism recipients)
March 22, 2003... In June 1996 the Social Security Administration (SSA) notified almost 170,000 Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Drug Addiction and Alcoholism (DA&A) recipients that their benefits would end on January 1, 1997. (1) Although the General...

Drug use prevalence among former SSI DA&A recipients.(Supplemental Security Income, drug addiction & alcoholism)
March 22, 2003... This paper provides an overview of illegal drug use prevalence among former drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A) recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Seattle, based on urinalysis and self-report data...

SSI receipt and alcohol and other drug use among former SSI DA&A beneficiaries.(Supplemental Security Income, drug addiction & alcoholism)
March 22, 2003... Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments for a disability "materially related" to drug addiction and/or alcoholism (DA&A) were terminated effective January 1, 1997. Less than three years earlier, in August 1994, Congress had enacted...

Drug treatment participation and retention rates among former recipients of Supplemental Security Income for drug addiction and alcoholism.
March 22, 2003... In this paper we examine how the discontinuation of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A) impairment category affected subsequent drug and alcohol treatment retention and participation rates among former...

Medical and mental health services utilization among requalified and former Drug Addiction and Alcoholism recipients of SSI.(Supplemental Security Income )
March 22, 2003... In the face of growing disparities in health insurance coverage, intensive health cost-containment efforts, and increased market penetration of managed health care systems, health policy researchers have focused increasingly on the...

An analysis of the criminogenic effects of terminating the Supplemental Security Income impairment category for drug addiction and alcoholism.
March 22, 2003... Despite differing legal interpretations and changes in how eligibility requirements applied in practice (see Hunt and Baumohl, this issue), all individuals formerly receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for drug addiction and/or...

General course and correlates of improvement and decline following termination of the Supplemental Security Income impairment category for drug addiction and alcoholism.
March 22, 2003... The federal legislation (PL 104-121) that ended supplemental security income (SSI) disability benefits for drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A) was a blunt instrument of social change. For the first time in the history of the Social Security...

Now invited to testify: former beneficiaries appraise the SSI drug addiction and alcoholism program.(Supplemental Security Income )
March 22, 2003... The only thing that I do want to tell you is I just thank God that they did have this SSI. And I'm glad they didn't just throw me down the shitter, man, because I think I've come a long way, you know? I mean, a real long way. A 45-year-old...

Substance abuse and welfare policy at the new century.(after demise of Social Security Administration's Drug Addiction & Alcoholism program)
March 22, 2003... This essay concludes the set of papers gathered in this issue of Contemporary Drug Problems to report findings from the "SSI Study," a two-year longitudinal inquiry conducted in nine sites in five states with panels that included nearly 1,800...