Drug Abuse Treatment: The Implementation of Innovative Approaches: 0045 (Contributions in Criminology and Penology) - Hardcover

 
9780313289064: Drug Abuse Treatment: The Implementation of Innovative Approaches: 0045 (Contributions in Criminology and Penology)

Synopsis

This collection reports on the progress of the intervention programs first described in Innovative Approaches in the Treatment of Drug Abuse: Program Models and Strategies (Inciardi and Fletcher, 1993). By examining the implementation of treatment initiatives, this study focuses on an area often neglected in the research literature: the context in which research is conducted. Applied researchers, particularly those who study users of illicit drugs, face many obstacles that investigators working in more controlled settings, or with more predictable and compliant subjects, often do not encounter. These accounts demonstrate the challenges in producing rapid improvement in treatment for the vulnerable and underserved population of drug abusers. A close study of these efforts will be useful to other researchers in planning for and solving implementation problems that can be anticipated, and in providing guidelines and strategies to overcome those that cannot.

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About the Author

JAMES A. INCIARDI is Professor and Director of the Division of Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. He has more than twenty-five years of experience in the research and clinical aspects of drug abuse, and he has consulted extensively, both nationally and internationally. Mr. Inciardi has published more than one-hundred articles, books, and chapters in books in the areas of substance abuse, history, folklore, criminology, criminal justice and law, public policy, and AIDS.

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