Drug Abuse Treatment Research: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, October 10, 1990, Volume 4

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Page 17 - ... the National Institute of Education, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (with respect to grants awarded by the Health Resources Administration, the Health Services Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the Center for Disease Control, the Food and Drug Administration, the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, and the Public Health Service Regional Offices), the Office of Human Development, the Administration on Aging, the Social and Rehabilitation Service...
Page 58 - Outcomes will be studied for clients entering treatment with varied patterns of drug abuse and levels of impairment, and with different histories and patterns of treatment.
Page 44 - First, no large-scale evaluations of drug abuse treatment programs have been completed in recent years. During the 1970s and early 1980s, NIDA funded two broad long-term studies of treatment results: the Drug Abuse Reporting Program, which tracked a sample of clients who were enrolled in treatment from 1969 to 1973, and the Treatment Outcome Prospective Study, which tracked clients who were enrolled in treatment from 1979 to 1981. NIDA also funded a large effort to collect data on the characteristics...
Page 50 - GAO recommends that the Secretary of Health and Human Services direct NIDA to implement its strategic planning process and develop a plan that sets forth its long-term overall treatment research objectives and the relative priorities assigned to the different categories of treatment research. This plan should consider (1) current and anticipated trends of drug abuse and (2) the needs of treatment practitioners, who have a key stake in the results of NIDA'S research.
Page 43 - Abuse, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, is the key federal agency responsible for supporting research on drug abuse treatment.
Page 52 - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA), Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). NIDA was created by the passage of Public Law 92-255, the "Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972...
Page 38 - But we cannot allow ourselves to be bogged down in the present; we cannot lose sight of where we need to go and what we need to do to prepare for the future. At the same time we are in the short-term prison of this recession, we need to be buying land for the future.
Page 17 - So, as far as I am concerned, it has nothing to do with and does not belong in this bill; it belongs in S.
Page 66 - ... of their annual allotment to one or any combination of the three health care block grants and/or the low-income home energy assistance block grant. (The three health care block grants are: the preventive health and health services block grant; the maternal and child health services block grant; and the alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health services block grant.) In turn, most other block grant statutes allow States to transfer funds to the title XX program. According to the fiscal year 1993...
Page 9 - NIDA to implement its strategic planning process and develop a plan that sets forth its long-term overall treatment research objectives and the relative priorities assigned to the different categories of treatment research. This plan should consider current and anticipated trends of drug abuse and the needs of practitioners from the drug abuse Conclusions and Recommendations treatment community.

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