
Auteur D. H. EPSTEIN
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Documents disponibles écrits par cet auteur (9)

ENGLISH : Background: Relapse to drug use is often seen when contingencies designed to reduce drug use are discontinued. This paper reports on a stepdown maintenance contingency and 1-year follow-up in 110 patients who were maintained on metha[...]
D. H. EPSTEIN ; W. E. HAWKINS ; L. COVI ; A. UMBRICHT ; K. L. PRESTON | 2003
Dans Psychology of Addictive Behaviors (Vol.17, n°1, March 2003) Article : PériodiqueContingency management (CM) rapidly reduces cocaine use, but its effects subside after treatment. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) produces reductions months after treatment. Combined, the 2 might be complementary. One hundred ninety-three coc[...]
FRANÇAIS : A partir des données collectées lors de 3 essais cliniques (d'une durée de 25-29 semaine et d'un suivi à 3,6 et 12 mois) concernant 408 polytoxicomanes admissibles en traitement de maintenance à la méthadone, les auteurs font une ana[...]
ENGLISH : Underreporting of drug use is common and influenced by multiple factors. Cannabis (THC) use nonreporting and its relationship to heroin and cocaine use were investigated in 690 patients enrolled in 25- to 29-week clinical trials of c[...]
U. E. GHITZA ; D. H. EPSTEIN ; J. SCHMITTNER ; VAHABZADEH M. ; J. L. LIN ; K. L. PRESTON | 2007
Dans Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (Vol.75 n°5, 2007) Article : PériodiqueENGLISH : To examine the effect of reinforcer density in prize-based abstinence reinforcement, heroin/cocaine users (N = 116) in methadone maintenance (100 mg/day) were randomly assigned to a noncontingent control group (NonC) or to 1 of 3 gro[...]![]()
Recent marijuana blunt smoking impacts carbon monoxide as a measure of adolescent tobacco abstinence
ENGLISH : Adolescent tobacco smokers have a higher prevalence of marijuana (MJ) smoking than adolescents who do not smoke tobacco. As part of an adolescent smoking cessation trial, we examined whether MJ smoking, and specifically blunt (gutted[...]
Cocaine-using methadone-maintenance patients were randomized to standard contingency management (abstinence group, n = 49) or to a contingency designed to increase contact with reinforcers (shaping group, n = 46). For 8 weeks, both groups earned[...]
A. HEINZ ; D. H. EPSTEIN ; K. L. PRESTON | 2007
Dans Journal of Psychoactive Drugs (Vol.39 n°1, 2007) Article : PériodiqueENGLISH : Although spirituality is an integral component of some of the most popular approaches to substance abuse treatment, there is little empirical evidence for a causal relationship between spirituality and treatment success. In the prese[...]
D. H. EPSTEIN ; G. F. MARRONE ; S. J. HEISHMAN ; J. SCHMITTNER ; K. L. PRESTON | 2010
Dans Addictive Behaviors (Vol.35, n°4, April 2010) Article : PériodiqueBACKGROUND: Relationships among tobacco smoking, tobacco craving, and other drug use and craving may have treatment implications in polydrug-dependent individuals. METHODS: We conducted the first ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study to in[...]