New data from the addiction severity index: Reliability and validity in three centers

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 173, Issue 7, 1985, Pages 412-423

  Thomas McLellan, A ^a   Luborsky, Lester ^a   Cacciola, John ^a   Griffith, Jeffrey ^a   Evans, Frederick ^b   Barr, Harriet L ^c   O’Brien, Charles P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Carrier Clinic   (United States)

^c Eagleville Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; DRUG ABUSE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPY;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; DIVORCE; EMPLOYMENT; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 0021823893     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-198507000-00005     Document Type: Article

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