Objective: Although counseling is a required part of office-based buprenorphine treatment of
opioid use disorders, the nature of what constitutes appropriate counseling is unclear and …

Retaining and tracking cohort participants is crucial for" longitudinal" cohort studies, ie, those
that require periodic contact with participants after cohort entry to update exposures and/or …

Implementing a large, longitudinal study of any sample is a major undertaking. The
challenges are compounded when the study involves multiple sites and a high-risk sample …

The goals of this paper were to:(a) discuss the interface between dominant behavioral
patterns of substance users and the development of a follow-up management model,(b) …

Little is known about gambling rates of drug users recruited from drug treatment compared
with those recruited from the community. We use the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) to …

Introduction Polysubstance use disorder is prevalent in treatment-seeking patients with
substance use disorder (SUD), with a higher risk of developing comorbid psychiatric …

The purpose of this study was to investigate short-term outcomes of a 3-day inpatient
medical detoxification. Heroin abusers (n= 116; 66% male, 77% African-American, X= 38 …

Retention efforts are critical to maintain relationships with research participants over time.
This is especially important for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study …

In a prior study Festinger, DS, Marlowe, DB, Croft, JR, Dugosh, KL, Mastro, NK, Lee, PA,
DeMatteo, DS, Patapis, NS, 2005. Do research payments precipitate drug use or coerce …

True intention-to-treat analyses are rare in reports of randomized clinical trials. To highlight
the complex issues that arise in conducting and interpreting data from intention-to-treat …