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The Utility of Mentoring Homeless Adolescents: A Pilot Study.

Conclusions and Scientific Significance: While not providing resounding support for mentoring, this study suggests that examining the mentor/mentee relationship may be a fruitful line of future research given that significant variability among the mentor/mentee pairs was noted for some outcomes of interest.

Barriers to Employment among Unemployed Drug Users: Age Predicts Severity.

Conclusions and Scientific Significance: These results suggest that providers of workforce development services for drug users in treatment or exiting treatment should attend to these specific barriers to employment, which may also be more pronounced among older clients. PMID: 22242680 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)

Depression as a Mediator of the Association between Substance Abuse and Negative Parenting of Fathers.

Conclusions: Depressive symptoms in fathers entering SA treatment have implications for both the severity of drug abuse and negative parenting behaviors.

Advancing Interpersonal Therapy for Substance Use Disorders.

Conclusions and Scientific Significance: It is expected that the suggested adaptations for IPT will enable IPT treatment to be more effective.

HIV Sex-Risk Behaviors among In- versus Out-of-Treatment Heroin-Addicted Adults.

Conclusions: Nontreatment seekers are at higher HIV risk than those entering MTPs and should be a focus of sex-risk reduction interventions, even if they are not interested in treatment at that time. PMID: 22243486 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)

A Brief Survey to Characterize Oxycodone Abuse Patterns in Adolescents Enrolled in Two Substance Abuse Recovery High Schools.

Conclusions: In this small study, adolescent oxycodone abusers use high quantities of oxycodone at a time, alter routes of administration for not only extended-release but also immediate-release products, and commonly abuse single-entity oxycodone products. Abuse-deterrent formulations may be one strategy for addressing such behaviors. PMID: 22220502 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)

Measures of Attentional Bias and Relational Responding Are Associated with Behavioral Treatment Outcome for Cocaine Dependence.

Conclusions and scientific significance: These findings highlight the potential utility of performance-based measures for delineating the psychological mechanisms associated with variation in response to treatment for drug dependence. PMID: 22220556 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)

Personality Differences between Drug Injectors and Non-injectors among Substance-Dependent Patients in Substitution Treatment.

Conclusion: According to the route of drug administration, drug dependents differed in terms of personality disorders and dimensions. Scientific Significance: These results may have implications for the implementation of treatment programs

The Efficacy of Mirtazapine in the Treatment of Cocaine Dependence with Comorbid Depression.

Conclusions and Scientific Significance: The results of this study suggest that mirtazapine is superior to placebo in improving sleep in patients with comorbid depression and cocaine dependence, but is not more effective than placebo in reducing cocaine use.

"Bath Salt" Ingestion Leading to Severe Intoxication Delirium: Two Cases and a Brief Review of the Emergence of Mephedrone Use.

Conclusions: Challenges and strategies surrounding diagnosis and treatment are described, which may be useful as “bath salt” use becomes more widespread. Scientific Significance: As an emerging trend, bath salt intoxication delirium appears to cause intense psychosis that can be managed with antipsychotic medications.