Out‐Patient Treatment of Narcotic Addiction. Who Benefits?

Oppenheim, G. B.; Wright, Jean; Buchanan, John C.; Biggs, Leo

doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1973.tb01220.x

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“…Levy (1972) and Stephens (1972) found no relation between educational attainment and abstinence.iThe association of poor educational achievement in this study is with continued delinquency rather than with addiction alone. Oppenheim (1973) found age of drug onset, pre-drug conviction and broken homes of no prognostic value for determining abstinence in London narcotic addicts. This study generally confirms her, observations for abstinence alone, but these variables do emerge as significant for outcome 'assessed in combined terms.…”

Section: Variables Related To Outcomementioning

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Drugs and Delinquency: A Four Year Follow-up of Drug Clinic Patients

Gordon¹

1978

Br J Psychiatry

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The addiction and conviction status of 60 male patients, examined at a London drug clinic in 1970 was reassessed at four-year follow-up. Forty-three per cent had become abstinent, 23 per cent remained dependent and 15 per cent had died. Ninety-seven per cent had received a court conviction and 73 per cent were convicted during follow-up. A prognostic assessment was determined in combined terms of continued addiction and continued delinquency. Poor outcome related to a lack of educational attainment, earlier first conviction and regular opiate use on arrival, and was associated during follow-up with an irregular clinic attendance beyond one year, drug conviction and death. Good outcome related to an absence of parental loss and later first conviction, and was associated during follow-up with discharge within one year without hospital admission. Analysis of the data indicates the value of combining forensic information with drug history in prognostic assessment.

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Section: Variables Related To Outcomementioning

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Drugs and Delinquency: A Four Year Follow-up of Drug Clinic Patients

Gordon¹

1978

Br J Psychiatry

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Treatment of Drug Addiction in London

Ghodse¹

1983

The Lancet

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A Follow-up Study of Female Narcotic Addicts: Variables Related to Outcome

dʼOrbán

1974

Br J Psychiatry

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The poor prognosis of narcotic dependence is generally recognized, but this is a field in which it is specially difficult to make predictions about the outcome of treatment in the individual patient. Vaillant (1966a) noted that abstinence appears to depend more on the addict's ability to discover satisfying alternatives to his addiction than on methods of treatment. In an attempt to identify prognostic indicators in narcotic dependence a number of follow-up studies have examined the relationship between outcome and various social and psychological characteristics of the patients studied. While most follow-up studies are of male addicts or of samples containing only a small proportion of women, the present study is concerned with the outcome in a sample of 66 female narcotic addicts.

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Out‐Patient Treatment of Narcotic Addiction. Who Benefits?

Abstract: The first three years work of a drug dependence Out-Patient clinic is discussed. 40 patients who succeeded in overcoming their drug habit are compared with a similar number still on drugs. JVb clear differences emerged which offered a prognostic guide.

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Drugs and Delinquency: A Four Year Follow-up of Drug Clinic Patients

Drugs and Delinquency: A Four Year Follow-up of Drug Clinic Patients

Treatment of Drug Addiction in London

A Follow-up Study of Female Narcotic Addicts: Variables Related to Outcome

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