@article{ref1,
title="A case-matched comparison of readmission patterns between primary methamphetamine-using and primary cocaine-using adolescents engaged in inpatient substance-abuse treatment",
journal="Addictive behaviors",
year="2007",
author="Callaghan, Russell C. and Taylor, L. and Victor, J. Charles and Lentz, Tim",
volume="32",
number="12",
pages="3101-3106",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: In the United States and Canada, elevated patterns of methamphetamine-related treatment admissions among youth have triggered questions about appropriate substance-abuse treatment strategies for methamphetamine-using adolescents. This study aimed to provide a comparative examination of the readmission patterns of primary methamphetamine-using and primary cocaine-using adolescents to a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based alcohol-and-drug inpatient treatment program. METHODS: The current study employed a 5-year medical-chart review of all consecutive admissions to an inpatient, hospital-based substance-abuse treatment program for adolescents in northern British Columbia, Canada. After using a propensity-score-matching approach to construct a case-matched sample (n=202) of primary methamphetamine-using and primary cocaine-using adolescents, we employed a Kaplan-Meier survival analysis technique to test group differences in time-to-readmission. RESULTS: The findings demonstrated that the methamphetamine group did not have a more severe time-to-readmission profile. CONCLUSIONS: General CBT-based treatment-as-usual approaches appear to produce similar long-term readmission outcomes for these two groups of treatment-seeking adolescents.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-4603",
doi="10.1016/j.addbeh.2007.06.007",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2007.06.007"
}