Depression, drug use, and health services need, utilization, and cost

Does retention matter? Treatment duration and improvement in drug use

“…1990; Kessler et al . 1996; McBride et al . 2000), we include two items from the baseline interview regarding ‘how troubled or bothered’ the client is about, respectively, drug use and mental/emotional problems, scaled as ‘not at all, somewhat, or very much’ (= 1, 2, 3).…”

The Health Benefits of Moderate Drinking Revisited: Alcohol Use and Self-Reported Health Status

“…Various epidemiological studies have demonstrated an association between heavy alcohol consumption and a variety of public health problems and adverse health outcomes, including coronary heart disease (CHD), [1][2][3][4][5] psychiatric disorders, [6][7][8][9][10][11] and injury. [12][13][14][15][16] Although heavy drinking may lead to poor health status, several studies suggest that moderate drinking has beneficial health and societal outcomes, such as reduced use of expensive/acute healthcare, increased wages, and reduced risk of cardiovascular disease (CHD and associated myocardial infarction).…”

Local Implementation of Drug Policy and Access to Treatment Services for Juveniles

“…These factors are affected by health delivery system structural characteristics as well as population characteristics (Aday et al, 1998) that include (a) social determinants that define available technology/therapeutic models for treating particular conditions as well as social norms for seeking treatment for that condition, (b) how health care is organized to meet individual service needs and relative effectiveness, and (c) individual sociodemographic and behavioral characteristics. Such health services models have been useful in analyzing the social determinants and individual characteristics of drug users that affect health service access such as co-morbidities and health beliefs (McBride, Van Buren, Terry, & Goldstein, 2000). In addition, the model has shown itself to be useful in understanding how health services organization facilitates or hinders access to needed services for drug users (McCoy, Messiah, & Zhao, 2002).…”