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N H Rathod

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PubMed1990

Relationship between waiting time and retention in treatment amongst substance abusers.

The assumption that immediate response to substance abusers' pleas for help increases the likelihood of retention in treatment is tested in a substance abuse facility in the Home Counties which offers a range of treatment options excluding prescription of narcotics substitutes. It has shorter waiting times between referral and first appointments and higher rates of initial attendance than the local general psychiatric clinics. Patients seen within 7 days continue to attend for no longer than those who have to wait longer. Those who continue longer are more likely to be referred by their G.P., are more likely to have alcohol or alcohol and other drug related problems and are less likely to seek or need immediate inpatient admission.

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PubMed1979

Drug addiction.

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PubMed1976

Heroin misuse and delinquency in a new town.

The subjects of this study were eighty misusers of heroin who lived in the New Town of Crawley, West Sussex. The relationship between their criminal histories and their histories of drug misuse were examined. It was found that more of the heroin misusers than would be expected had been convicted of criminal offenses before they began to misuse drugs, while the reduction or cessation of heroin use during a four-year follow-up period was accompanied by a reduction in convictions. Some social characteristics of the male heroin misusers were compared with those of two other Crawley groups--a group of juvenile offenders who did not misuse heroin and their control group of non-delinquents. Characteristics commonly associated with maladjustment did not distinguish the heroin misusers from the juvenile offenders, nor were they found to be associated with the continued use of heroin. Analysis of the data in epidemiological terms suggested that among the necessary conditions for an outbreak of drug misuse in a particular community the availability of drugs together with socializing drug users were more important than the presence of predisposed individuals.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1976

Case-note abstraction: a methodological substudy as cautionary tale.

A sample of 42 case notes of alcoholic patients were abstracted for 17 items by three different raters. Interrater agreement was generally rather low. Research based on case-note abstraction which does not report on abstraction reliabilities must therefore be viewed with some suspicion. It would be helpful if clinical material could more often be collected in a standardized manner.

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