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Studies
Monitoring The Future: National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975-2010 (May 2011)
MTF is an investigator-initiated study that originated with, and is conducted by, a team of research scientists at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. It has been continuously funded since its onset in 1975 by the National Institute on Drug Abuse -- one of the National Institutes of Health -- under a series of peer-reviewed, competitive research grants.
A widespread epidemic of illicit drug use emerged in the 1960s among American youth, and since then dramatic changes have occurred in the use of nearly all drugs involved, as well as alcohol and tobacco. Of particular importance, as discussed in this study, many new illicit drugs have emerged, along with some new forms of cigarettes and alcoholic beverages. Among the newly abused substances are some new classes of drugs, including over-the-counter medications, drugs taken for strength enhancement, new forms of tobacco, and a number of socalled "club drugs" ...
Minnesota Teen Challenge Wilder Research Outcome Study (January 2011)
Between 2007 and 2009, 315 men, women, and youth graduated from the Minnesota Teen Challenge 12-month Life Care program. Wilder Research, an independent evaluator, sampled and conducted one-year follow-up telephone interviews with these graduates. In total, a representative sample of nearly 60 percent of those graduates was interviewed by Wilder Research staff. Their findings reveal that 74 percent of graduates reported no use in the six months prior to follow-up, while 62 percent of graduates reported no relapses since graduation nor use in the past six months ...
Northwestern Study: A Review (1999)
The number of federal dollars appropriated for drug treatment has steadily climbed over the past 40 years, from $120 million in 1969, to $1.1 billion in 1974, to $3 billion in 1996. This dramatic rise in spending has occurred even though the current group of illicit drug users is half the size of the same group in 1979. Because of this mushrooming of funds in the face of a smaller target audience, in recent years the effectiveness and return on investment of these publicly funded treatment programs has repeatedly been called into question. How effective are these programs, and what kinds of criteria can be used to say a particular treatment is successful? The answers to those questions may surprise you ...
Northwestern Study: The Teen Challenge Drug Treatment Program in Comparative Perspective (1999)
The project is a comparative evaluation of the Christian drug treatment program Teen Challenge. The history and procedure of Teen Challenge is described, and its moral understanding of addiction is contrasted with the disease model of addiction found in other programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous. ...
A Summary of Teen Challenge Studies
This document includes summaries of four studies into the effectiveness of the Teen Challenge program ...
Research Summation: H.E.W. Study on Teen Challenge Training Center, Rehrersburg, PA (1976)
This study was funded as a demonstration project -- to demonstrate that the introduction of a religious component into a therapeutic community for drug abusers is the one aspect which produces the large success rate. ...
Services Research Rerport: An Evaluaton of the Teen Challenge Treatment Program (1977)
In 1973, Teen Challenge staff, having become concerned with understanding the effectiveness of their program, requested and received a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study a sample of clients and describe their response to treatment. This report is based on materials collected by Teen Challenge staff and made available to NIDA by them ...