Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
Volume 39, Issue 3 , Pages 264-271 , October 2010

How serious of a problem is staff turnover in substance abuse treatment? A longitudinal study of actual turnover

Received 9 October 2009 ,Revised 24 June 2010 ,Accepted 25 June 2010.

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 This project described was supported by Award R01DA019460 from the National Institutes on Drug Abuse awarded to Lillian T. Eby. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute on Drug Abuse or the National Institutes of Health. Thanks to Lisa Baranik, Marcus Butts, Lori Ducharme, Sarah Evans, Carrie Hurst, Hannah Knudsen, Aaron Johnson, Charles Lance, and Carrie Owen for their assistance with data collection and analysis.

PII: S0740-5472(10)00136-4

doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2010.06.009

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
Volume 39, Issue 3 , Pages 264-271 , October 2010

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