Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
Volume 35, Issue 1 , Pages 28-35 , July 2008

Does readiness to change predict reduced crack use in human immunodeficiency virus prevention?

An early version of this work was presented at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence 68th Annual Scientific Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ, with travel supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse Women and Gender Junior Investigator Travel Award.

Received 7 December 2006 ,Revised 9 July 2007 ,Accepted 8 August 2007.

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PII: S0740-5472(07)00236-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2007.08.001

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
Volume 35, Issue 1 , Pages 28-35 , July 2008

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