Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
Volume 30, Issue 3 , Pages 183-189, April 2006

Unmet needs for comprehensive services in outpatient addiction treatment

  • Janice L. Pringle, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, 449 Falk Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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  • Nicholas P. Emptage, M.A.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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  • Robert L. Hubbard, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Community-Based Research, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc, Raleigh, NC, USA

Received 22 March 2005; received in revised form 24 October 2005; accepted 23 November 2005.

Abstract 

Many addiction treatment patients suffer from health and psychosocial problems in addition to substance misuse at the time of their treatment entry. Outpatient treatment programs have attempted to address these problems by providing or facilitating access to comprehensive health and social services. Nevertheless, previous research have suggested high levels of unmet needs for these services in the addiction treatment population. Using data from a large study on community-based outpatient addiction treatment, this article provides additional information on levels of unmet service needs and the relationship between need and receipt of services during treatment. Our results suggest extremely high levels of unmet needs for a wide variety of health and psychosocial services. Specifically, the data suggest that unmet service needs may be far more prevalent than previous estimates and that addiction treatment populations in rural areas may be particularly disadvantaged.

Keywords: Need, Outpatient, Psychosocial, Services, Unmet

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PII: S0740-5472(05)00248-5

doi:10.1016/j.jsat.2005.11.006

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
Volume 30, Issue 3 , Pages 183-189, April 2006

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