title: Associations with substance abuse treatment completion among drug court participants.
abstract: Subjects in the study included all participants (N = 573) in drug treatment court in amid-sized U.S. city from 1996 through 2004. Administrative data from the drug court included measures of demographics and socioeconomics, substance use, and criminal justice history. Stepwise multivariate logistic regression yielded a final model of failure to complete drug treatment. Unemployment, lower educational attainment, and cocaine use disorders were associated with failure to complete treatment. The limitations of administrative data should be considered in the interpretation of results.
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin 53715, USA. rtbrown@wisc.edu
authors.forename: Randall
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003416:Criminal Law; D057237:Criminals; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014478:Unemployment