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Drug Abuse
Case management intervention facilitates entry from needle exchange program into drug abuse program
September 19th, 2006
Case management intervention for intravenous drug users facilitates entry from a needle exchange program into a drug abuse program. According to a recently published report from the United States, "We evaluated a case management intervention to increase treatment entry among injecting drug users referred from a needle exchange program (NEP). "A randomized trial of a strengths based case management (intervention) versus passive referral (control) was conducted among NEP attenders requesting and receiving referrals to subsidized, publicly funded opiate agonist treatment programs in Baltimore, MD." "Logistic regression identified...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2006-09-19)
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