SPECIAL FOCUS SECTION: THE TARGET CITIES APPROACH

TO IMPROVING TREATMENT SYSTEMS

Table of Contents

Volume 34, Number 1

January - March  2002

Editors’ Introduction: Improving Publicly Funded Drug Abuse Treatment Systems:  The Target Cities Initiative — Joseph Guydish, Ph.D. & Ronald E. Claus, M.Ed.

Impacts of Centralized Intake on Drug and Alcohol Treatment Placement Decisions — Christy K Scott, Ph.D. & Mark A. Foss, Ph.D.

The San Francisco Centralized Intake Unit: A Description of Participants and Service Episodes — William J. Woods, Ph.D.; Sven D. Klingemann, Dipl-Sowi & Joseph R. Guydish, Ph.D.

Engaging Substance Abusers After Centralized Assessment:  Predictors of Treatment Entry and Dropout — Ronald E. Claus, Ph.D. & Lisa R. Kindleberger

Women are Less Likely to be Admitted to Substance Abuse Treatment Within 30 Days of Assessment — Cynthia L. Arfken, Ph.D.; Natalie Borisova, Ph.D.; Chris Klein, B.S.;  Salvatore di Menza, M.S. & Charles R. Schuster, Ph.D.

Interaction Effects of Treatment Setting and Client Characteristics on Retention and Completion — Chris Klein, B.S.; Salvatore di Menza, M.S.; Cynthia Arfken, Ph.D.  & Charles R. Schuster, Ph.D.

Impact of Centralized Intake on Case Management Services — Christy K Scott, Ph.D.; Richard E. Sherman, Ph.D.; Mark A. Foss, Ph.D.; Mark Godley, Ph.D. & Lilia Hristova, Ph.D.

Treatment Preparation in the Context of System Coordination Serves Inmates Well — Phillip A. Windell, M.A. & Nancy Barron, Ph.D.

Predictors of Attrition in a Longitudinal Study of Substance Abusers —  Ronald E. Claus, Ph.D.; Lisa R. Kindleberger & Mary C. Dugan

Varieties of Centralized Intake: The Portland Target Cities Project Experience — Nancy Barron, Ph.D.; Bentson W. McFarland, M.D., Ph.D. & Lynn McCamant, M.S.

Effects of Treatment History and Centralized Intake on Drug Treatment Outcomes — Clare Sears, M.A.; Thomas Davis, B.S. & Joseph Guydish, Ph.D.

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Immigrant and Native-Born Female Heroin Addicts in Israel — Richard Isralowitz, Ph.D. & Rachel Bar Hamburger, Ph.D.

Gender Differences in Dually-Diagnosed Clients Receiving Chemical Dependency Treatment — Diane M. DiNitto, Ph.D.; Deborah K. Webb, Ph.D. & Allen Rubin, Ph.D.

BOOK REVIEW

Ayahuasca: Human Consciousness and the Spirits of Nature Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine  — Reviewed by Steve Heilig, M.P.H.

INTERNATIONAL ADDICTIONS INFOLINE —  Richard B. Seymour, M.A; David E. Smith, M.D. & Terry Chambers, B.A.

COVER ART — Abstract Acrylic—D/A 116 by Jack White