Improving treatment outcomes for pregnant drug-dependent women using low-magnitude voucher incentives

Article Abstract:

Low-magnitude voucher incentives do not affect treatment attendance for abstinence-based subjects, according to research investigating the effectiveness of low-magnitude behavioural incentives in boosting outpatient attendance for abstinence-treated patients and drug abstinence in methadone-maintenance patients. This lack of effectiveness could be attributable to the way in which attendance was monitored, and further investigation is thus required of the effect of total patient-staff contact time and the use of small tangible reinforcers on attendance. Low-magnitude voucher incentives did not affect drug use, as monitored by urinalysis, in methadone-maintenance patients.

Care and treatment, Drug addicts, Drug abusers, Drug use

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Clinical and psychosocial characteristics of substance-dependent pregnant women with and without PTSD

Article Abstract:

This article examines psychiatric problems of opiate and cocaine dependent pregnant women with and without post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The authors maintain drug dependent pregnant women with PTSD were more likely to have attempted suicide, more likely to have been sexually abused, and more likely to have had more previous drug treatments than drug dependent pregnant women without PTSD.

Psychological aspects, Demographic aspects, Post-traumatic stress disorder

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Partner violence impacts the psychosocial and psychiatric status of pregnant, drug-dependent women

Article Abstract:

The psychosocial and psychiatric impacts of violence inflicted by abusive husbands on pregnant women, dependent on medical drugs, are examined in a comparative case study. Remedial attempts should be made to rectify the husband-wife relationship, more so in the presence of substance abuse and violence.

Specialty outpatient clinics, not elsewhere classified, Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers, Alcohol & Drug Abuse Programs, Analysis, Substance abuse treatment

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