Citation

Callaghan RC, Taylor L, Victor JC, Lentz T. Addict. Behav. 2007; 32(12): 3101-3106.

Affiliation

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 33 Russell Street, Toronto, ON, Canada. Russell_Callaghan@camh.net

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.addbeh.2007.06.007

PMID

17618062

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.

Language: en