World Medical & Health PolicyVolume 6, Issue 4 p. 493-495 Book Review Isaac, Campos. 2012. Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. $27.95. pp. 331. Paper. ISBN 978-0-8078-3538-8. Dean Gerstein, Dean Gerstein Claremont Graduate UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Dean Gerstein, Dean Gerstein Claremont Graduate UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 21 December 2014 https://doi.org/10.1002/wmh3.120Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume6, Issue4December 2014Pages 493-495 RelatedInformation

This is a serious programmatic book intended mainly for an academic research audience. There is food for thought here, some of it quite interesting for clinicians, although there is only a glancing attention to clinical cases, programs, or approaches. The editors who commissioned these chapters (with each one also contributing one) are an unusual foursome of philosophers and economists, one of whom directs the Centre for the Study of Gambling at University of Salford, U.K. They have assembled an international array of faculty (albeit all in predominantly English-speaking countries), mainly from the disciplines of neuroscience, behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and philosophy.

To describe and evaluate tests of the performance of the NODS–CLiP, an efficient standardized diagnostic interview instrument for adult pathological and problem gambling.

The authors investigated the relationship between patients' self-rated satisfaction with treatment services during and shortly after treatment with their drug use outcomes at one year follow-up, using a US national panel survey of patients in 62 methadone, outpatient, short-term residential, and long-term residential programs. A favorable evaluation of treatment near the time of discharge had a significant positive relationship with drug use improvement outcomes approximately one year later, independent of the separately measured effects of treatment duration, counseling intensity, patient adherence to treatment protocols, pre-treatment drug use patterns, and other characteristics of patients and treatment programs.

AddictionVolume 102, Issue 9 p. 1508-1508 Drugs and Society: U.S. Public Policy DEAN GERSTEIN, DEAN GERSTEIN Vice Provost, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, USASearch for more papers by this author DEAN GERSTEIN, DEAN GERSTEIN Vice Provost, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, USASearch for more papers by this author First published: 09 August 2007 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2007.01986.xCitations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume102, Issue9September 2007Pages 1508-1508 RelatedInformation

AddictionVolume 100, Issue 1 p. 133-134 Gambling in America: Costs and Benefits DEAN R. GERSTEIN, DEAN R. GERSTEIN NORC at the University of Chicago Washington, DC USASearch for more papers by this author DEAN R. GERSTEIN, DEAN R. GERSTEIN NORC at the University of Chicago Washington, DC USASearch for more papers by this author First published: 10 December 2004 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2005.00980.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL References Gerstein, D. R., Volberg, R. A., Toce (Gerstein), M. T., Harwood, H., Johnson, R. A., Buie, T., Christiansen, E., Chuchro, L., Cummings, W., Engelman, L., Hill, M. A., Hoffmann, J., Larison, C., Murphy, S. A., Palmer, A., Sinclair, S. & Tucker, A. (1999) Gambling Impact and Behavior Study. Report to the National Gambling Impact Study Commission. Chicago: NORC, University of Chicago[the NORC final report can be permanently accessed at: http://cloud9.norc.uchicago.edu/dlib/ngis.htm]. Volberg, R. A. (2001) When the Chips Are Down: Problem Gambling in America. New York: Century Foundation Press. Volume100, Issue1January 2005Pages 133-134 ReferencesRelatedInformation

Ecstasy (MDMA) use increased rapidly in the U.S. between about 1995 and 2001. Most research on the drug focused on its psychopharmacological and public health contexts. Previous research on drugs-crime linkages suggests that there may have been a concommitant rise in ecstasy-related crimes. We explore this dimension here using data from 7794 arrested men, age 16 to 25, in the 2001 Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) sample and 9764 male respondents of similar age in the 2001 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA). Our results using a variety of bivariate and regression methods indicate that ecstasy use is less prevalent among young male arrestees than young men in general and that ecstasy use among arrestees is positively associated with various measures of drug market participation but negatively related to violent and property offenses. We recommend further investigation of ecstasy use in drug-oriented data sets and longitudinal studies to evaluate the link between ecstasy use and overall drug marketing.

Background:Patients with drug use disorders are heavy users of emergency department (ED) and inpatient hospital care. This study examines whether formal mechanisms to link addiction treatment patients to primary medical care, either directly on site or by off-site referral—when compared with an absence of said mechanisms—might reduce these patients’ use of ED and hospital services after substance abuse treatment. Methods:We used longitudinal data from 6 methadone maintenance programs with 232 patients, 24 outpatient nonmethadone programs with 1202 patients, and 14 long-term residential programs with 679 patients in the National Treatment Improvement Evaluation Study. Multivariate logistic models controlling for health status and medical service utilization before treatment examined whether provision of medical services on- or off-site during treatment linkage led to reduced use of ED and hospital services in the year after treatment compared with no such provision. Results:On-site delivery of primary care reduced subsequent ED and hospital use among patients in methadone maintenance and long-term residential compared with the nonlinkage condition but not in outpatient nonmethadone programs. Off-site referral for medical care reduced subsequent ED visits but not hospitalizations in long-term residential programs. Conclusions:These findings suggest that for some treatment modalities, stronger primary care linkage mechanisms decrease subsequent utilization of expensive ED and hospital services. Future study should examine the cost implications of these strong linkage mechanisms and ways to strengthen linkages to off-site medical care.

AIMS:To examine whether need-service matching in addiction treatment leads to improvements in drug use, and whether treatment duration mediates those improvements. DESIGN, PARTICIPANTS, MEASUREMENTS:This analysis utilizes prospective data from a US cohort of addiction treatment patients who reported service needs beyond core rehabilitative services (n = 3103). 'Drug use improvement' is the difference between the patient's peak drug use frequency (in days per month) in the year before intake and in the year after treatment. Overall and primary use of the major illicit drugs (heroin, powder or crack cocaine and marijuana) are considered separately. 'Need-service match' means that a patient rated a service as important at intake and reported its receipt during treatment. 'Percentage of needs matched' indicates the proportion of five service domains (medical, mental health, family, vocational and housing) so matched. FINDINGS:In mixed regression models controlling for multiple factors, a greater percentage of needs matched tended to improve primary (beta = 0.028, P = 0.09) and overall (beta = 0.049, P = 0.05) drug use in the follow-up year. Exclusion of treatment duration as a covariate doubled the magnitude of these coefficients. The benefits of matching were concentrated among the half of patients reporting needs in four to five rather than one to three domains, and were strongest among patients in long-term residential facilities. Addressing vocational and housing needs exerted the greatest effects. CONCLUSIONS:Matching comprehensive services to needs is a useful addiction treatment practice, especially for high-need patients. Treatment duration might partially mediate its effect.